Is anyone else disappointed? I read the headline and through that my flying car was finally hear. Even after reading the summary I was still hopeful that we were talking about some sort of hovercraft.
I can't help but feel cheated by this story.
Of course the actual story is still promising. I'd be curious to know what sort of acceleration you can get out of one of these, what the max weight load is and if it has heat as well as A/C.
Also, if these things are so cheap and efficient, why wouldn't Tata make a more aggressive run at it? I mean 3,000 cars a year is nothing. Why doesn't Tata, approach a major leader who's been spouting off about reducing foreign oil dependency for the past 2 State of the Union Addresses (not that I want to name names) and tell him to put his policies where his mouth is?
I'd love to see the exact terms of that "exclusive, multi-year" relationship. Is it only for this device? Is it only for cellular phone calls? I could easily see a WiFi only version of this launching for public and home WiFi networks which could be sold through the Sprint-Cable JV. Or, a version with WiMAX (Sprint to launch in 2008) + WiFi + Skype or a similiar VoIP solution.
Well since they are using Cingular's EDGE technology with this phone, I'm pretty sure this model will never work on another carrier. Plus look at the Visual Voicemail feature. That had to be a collaboration between Cingular and Apple to get the technology to mesh just right. So unless they rewrite the VoiceMail software in future models, those of us without Cingular will probably never own one of these.
I guess Skype has never been something that's appealed to me personally. And I can't see the purpose of buying one of these to use as a Skype phone, when they are much cheaper alternatives (although not as portable). Besides why would you carry one of these around as a Skype Phone, plus carry around a regular cell phone for when you aren't near a WiFi connection. Plus let's face it, 8Gb is not a lot of space these days. Especially if you are storing video.
I agree completely. Coming from somewhere with absolutely no Cingular presence whatsoever, I would be VERY interested in an iPhone that doesn't have any phone capability at all. I sure hope there are plans for an iPod with all these features except the phone bits. Oh and with a 30Gb capacity too:-)
I can't believe Apple was stupid enough to lock into one carrier. This goes against everything they have been working for with the iTunes Store (trying to get all music, tv and movie companies onboard). As a former Cingular customer, they have the worst service in my area. Show me any coverage map you want, I don't care. You may get signal, but it's the bare minimum necessary for it to qualify to appear on the map. I'd place my pre-order today if I could use it with my Verizon account.
I can understand where they'd want to introduce the full blown phone first as they appear to be going to the FCC for approval right now. So now they can go ahead and build an iPod with the same components and release that in June too.
I'm sure the iPod with these features will come as well. I just hope that by the time it rolls out they figure out that if you are going to give it iTunes and give it WiFi, then it should be able to access and download music/video directly from the iTunes Store and then have it sync wirelessly back to iTunes on your desktop. I don't understand why Apple and Microsoft have been so reluctant to add that feature.
Actually these bans are more like speed limits than seat belt laws.
They are there to provide for the safety of the general populace. Many of our laws limit civil liberties for the sake of the greater good. Laws against murder and drunk driving for example. You do not have the right to cause harm to others. If more people would figure this out, we would have a national ban instead of county and state bans.
Ideally we wouldn't need these laws. Ideally, bar owners, restaurant owners, etc... would recognize the dangers posed by smoking and ban smoking in their establishments without need of laws. However, as you point out money trumps all things.
Smoke before you get there and after you leave if you need. Or take a up chewing, which isn't banned as it doesn't affect others around you (aside from being gross).
uh... regular old scissors have always don the trick for me. Otherwise a box cutter, pocket knife or utility knife. There's always a ton of extra plastic around whatever you purchased, so damage to the product is rarely a concern.
I agree, liberals are Satan incarnate. Yup being open-minded and progressive. I'm pretty sure liberals will destroy us all with their anti-hate rhetoric.
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2. (often initial capital letter) noting or pertaining to a political party advocating measures of progressive political reform.
3. of, pertaining to, based on, or advocating liberalism.
4. favorable to or in accord with concepts of maximum individual freedom possible, esp. as guaranteed by law and secured by governmental protection of civil liberties.
5. favoring or permitting freedom of action, esp. with respect to matters of personal belief or expression: a liberal policy toward dissident artists and writers.
6. of or pertaining to representational forms of government rather than aristocracies and monarchies.
7. free from prejudice or bigotry; tolerant: a liberal attitude toward foreigners.
8. open-minded or tolerant, esp. free of or not bound by traditional or conventional ideas, values, etc.
This is just a ploy to make a buck off of a successful game maker. The damn game has an "M for Mature" sticker on it for a reason. Why don't the plaintiffs start being parents and not stock guns within easy reach of their children.
Exactly! All this crap about violent video games causing violence is rediculous. I'm pretty sure that we had serial killers before video games, unless Jack the Ripper can time travel. It comes down to how kids are raised. Parents need to spend some time with their kids and teach them right from wrong. It's that simple. If you are going to have a kid, be responsible for it.
With the Zune, students will be free to share music, videos and photos right there in class. They'll be able to pass notes to one another.
Does anyone else find this disturbing? I work in a school and first, the second one of these is seen in a classroom it will be confiscated until the end of the day and second, should be be encouraging kids today to screw around in school instead of studying? And how long is it before we see the/. article about parents complaining that other kids at school shared porn with their kids via the Zune?
Think of it as a portable, wireless, hardware version of MySpace.
Great that's just what we need. Am I the only one who doesn't care for MySpace? Is that really where web design is headed? Every site will be 1 page with as many animated gifs, pictures, comments, videos and a background that makes it inpossible to read any of the text?
Microsoft will make the movement of media between Windows, Soapbox and the Zune natural and seamless.
So? iTunes seems pretty seamless to me and I can run it on Windows or a Mac.
I realize this is an opinion piece, but really did the writer base any of this on fact? Go ahead and call me a fanboy. I admit, I like my iPod. If I want a FM tuner, I can get one pretty cheap. If I want movies from all the major studios, I just have to wait. Just like the TV shows, movie studios will eventually sign on. My Opinion, is that the Zune won't be around next Christmas.
Okay before anyone rips my head off for this, I realize that Nintendo didn't actually make the Power Glove. I meant simply that it was an NES compatible device.
Dr. Orzack: I think there needs to be warning labels on MMORPGs like World of Warcraft, similar to warning labels on cigarettes. People should know that these games are potentially harmful. I'm sure the game industry will be up in arms over it, but that's what I'd like to see happen. I don't think we have a right to make Blizzard or other game companies change their products, but that may be what this comes to, down the road.
Okay she can't be serious. She's comparing video game addiction to cancer. How does anyone take her seriously after a statement like that?
Although in her defense, I used to get crippling cases of "nintendo-thumb" back in my youth.
My alliance characters are all female because quite frankly, I would rather spend my time looking at a pleasing female form. But contrast that with my horde characters, they're all male. I wonder what that means....other than I spend way too much time playing that silly game.
Interesting. When I created my main, a human female Paladin, I went with the theory that I'd be spending a lot of time with that character on screen. However, since then I've varied my characters and now have a male human rogue, a female NE druid, a male Gnomish mage, a female Gnomish warlock, a male NE priest, a female human Warrior and a male Dwarven hunter. I was going to have a male and female of each alliance race but I couldn't bring myself to creating a female Dwarf.
Oddly enough my two Horde characters are a male UD warlock and a male Tauren shaman.
Although I think that in all cases I created a character that was asthetically pleasing to me. That's probably why I could never make a female dwarf character or a female tauren character. Just because they look so damn rediculous.
...and yes I spend too much time playing this game too.
1. The ZPM factory is on Earth and hasn't been discovered yet. The outpost in Antarctica was only recently discovered. Perhaps the factory is somewhere else on the planet.
2. The ZPM factory isn't on Earth and hasn't been discovered yet. The stargates contain naquadah so it stands to reason that a ZPM would as well or perhaps naquadria. In either case, neither substance is native to Earth and therefore making the ZPM factory on Earth would be illogical.
3. There isn't a factory. If there are only a handful of outposts in the Milky Way and Pegasus and considering how long the ZPMs hold a charge, it's possible that there where only a few dozen created in a lab environment. Given that many of of the systems of Atlantis can be powered by a handful of naquadah generators, it's possible they didn't foresee needing more than a small number. Why use the nuclear reactor if you can get by on some AA batteries.
4. The ZPM factory is infact on Atlantis. They've only explored 50% of the city. While they have schematics that say what things are, it may not say ZPM lab. Additionally, since they'd only decoded a fraction of the ancient database, perhaps the instructions for building a ZPM are in the database.
It's not lazy writing, it's a careful balance of leaving enough plots holes to keep your future story options open without creating so many holes the story falls apart. If they'd found a room in Atlantis stocked full of charges ZPMs there really wouldn't be anywhere for the Atlantis storyline to go.
I'd have to agree. Why isn't the senate looking into the MPAA rating board?
My first piece of evidence against that rating system would be the movie Nuns on the Run
This movie is rated PG-13 but it has a scene in a girl's shower with multiple full-frontal shots.
How is it that our elected officials are more concerned about video game characters having sex than they are about 13 year olds seeing the movie equivalent of a Playboy?
Maybe it's just all of my insane relatives, but none of them run windows update. Ever. Maybe that has to do with it taking hours to download on their dial-up connections.
Additionally, I don't see this as a big issue. If people would code their sites to comform to browser standards, instead of making them IE friendly, they would have nothing to worry about
I just love studies based on speculation. Nothing like guessing at what the legal cost would have been if the person had been tried without the death penalty. I'm sorry but that arguement isn't going to float with me. A person fighting live in prison is going to cost just as much in appeals and legal fees as a person fighting the death penalty, especially if he/she is really innocent
Let's consider a hypothetical situation. Let's say Bob is a 19 year old gang member who walks into McDonald's one day and guns down 30 people. Let's look at our options. First there's the death penalty, long drawn out legal battle lasting years. Eventually, he runs out of appeals and is executed. End of story. Second there's life in prison without possibility of parol. Same long drawn out appeal process. Ends in Bob in prison for the rest of his life.
Now explain to me how it can possibly be cheaper to feed, clothe, provide shelter and guard for Bob for the next 40-60 years.
I realize that there are probably innocent people that have been put to death by mistake. But that is a failure elsewhere in the system. We should be pointing fingers at the cops who falsify evidence and ignore proper procedure. Besides would you rather that person is caged the rest of his life? That's not living either.
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Is anyone else disappointed? I read the headline and through that my flying car was finally hear. Even after reading the summary I was still hopeful that we were talking about some sort of hovercraft.
I can't help but feel cheated by this story.
Of course the actual story is still promising. I'd be curious to know what sort of acceleration you can get out of one of these, what the max weight load is and if it has heat as well as A/C.
Also, if these things are so cheap and efficient, why wouldn't Tata make a more aggressive run at it? I mean 3,000 cars a year is nothing. Why doesn't Tata, approach a major leader who's been spouting off about reducing foreign oil dependency for the past 2 State of the Union Addresses (not that I want to name names) and tell him to put his policies where his mouth is?
Well since they are using Cingular's EDGE technology with this phone, I'm pretty sure this model will never work on another carrier. Plus look at the Visual Voicemail feature. That had to be a collaboration between Cingular and Apple to get the technology to mesh just right. So unless they rewrite the VoiceMail software in future models, those of us without Cingular will probably never own one of these.
I guess Skype has never been something that's appealed to me personally. And I can't see the purpose of buying one of these to use as a Skype phone, when they are much cheaper alternatives (although not as portable). Besides why would you carry one of these around as a Skype Phone, plus carry around a regular cell phone for when you aren't near a WiFi connection. Plus let's face it, 8Gb is not a lot of space these days. Especially if you are storing video.
My vote is for the classic Mac game Rescue!
http://www.macgamefiles.com/detail.php?item=14030
Sure they had to change all the name for licensing reasons so it's not an official Mac game, but it's the most entertaining Trek game I've played.
I'll give a close second to Elite Force and the Star Trek game for the NES.
I can't believe Apple was stupid enough to lock into one carrier. This goes against everything they have been working for with the iTunes Store (trying to get all music, tv and movie companies onboard). As a former Cingular customer, they have the worst service in my area. Show me any coverage map you want, I don't care. You may get signal, but it's the bare minimum necessary for it to qualify to appear on the map. I'd place my pre-order today if I could use it with my Verizon account.
I can understand where they'd want to introduce the full blown phone first as they appear to be going to the FCC for approval right now. So now they can go ahead and build an iPod with the same components and release that in June too.I'm sure the iPod with these features will come as well. I just hope that by the time it rolls out they figure out that if you are going to give it iTunes and give it WiFi, then it should be able to access and download music/video directly from the iTunes Store and then have it sync wirelessly back to iTunes on your desktop. I don't understand why Apple and Microsoft have been so reluctant to add that feature.
Actually these bans are more like speed limits than seat belt laws.
They are there to provide for the safety of the general populace. Many of our laws limit civil liberties for the sake of the greater good. Laws against murder and drunk driving for example. You do not have the right to cause harm to others. If more people would figure this out, we would have a national ban instead of county and state bans.
Ideally we wouldn't need these laws. Ideally, bar owners, restaurant owners, etc... would recognize the dangers posed by smoking and ban smoking in their establishments without need of laws. However, as you point out money trumps all things.
Smoke before you get there and after you leave if you need. Or take a up chewing, which isn't banned as it doesn't affect others around you (aside from being gross).
uh... regular old scissors have always don the trick for me. Otherwise a box cutter, pocket knife or utility knife. There's always a ton of extra plastic around whatever you purchased, so damage to the product is rarely a concern.
I agree, liberals are Satan incarnate. Yup being open-minded and progressive. I'm pretty sure liberals will destroy us all with their anti-hate rhetoric.
Liberal
liberal /lbrl, lbrl/ -adjective
1. favorable to progress or reform, as in political or religious affairs.
2. (often initial capital letter) noting or pertaining to a political party advocating measures of progressive political reform.
3. of, pertaining to, based on, or advocating liberalism.
4. favorable to or in accord with concepts of maximum individual freedom possible, esp. as guaranteed by law and secured by governmental protection of civil liberties.
5. favoring or permitting freedom of action, esp. with respect to matters of personal belief or expression: a liberal policy toward dissident artists and writers.
6. of or pertaining to representational forms of government rather than aristocracies and monarchies.
7. free from prejudice or bigotry; tolerant: a liberal attitude toward foreigners.
8. open-minded or tolerant, esp. free of or not bound by traditional or conventional ideas, values, etc.
Well, I've been working with both over the past couple of weeks and my MacBook Pro runs VERY hot when running Parallels.
Although I haven't been able to get Crossover to run IE with the Acrobat plug-in for in-browser PDF forms.
Hopefully this update will correct that issue and hopefully future updates for Parallels with address the overheating issues.
Exactly! All this crap about violent video games causing violence is rediculous. I'm pretty sure that we had serial killers before video games, unless Jack the Ripper can time travel. It comes down to how kids are raised. Parents need to spend some time with their kids and teach them right from wrong. It's that simple. If you are going to have a kid, be responsible for it.
Does anyone else find this disturbing? I work in a school and first, the second one of these is seen in a classroom it will be confiscated until the end of the day and second, should be be encouraging kids today to screw around in school instead of studying? And how long is it before we see the /. article about parents complaining that other kids at school shared porn with their kids via the Zune?
Great that's just what we need. Am I the only one who doesn't care for MySpace? Is that really where web design is headed? Every site will be 1 page with as many animated gifs, pictures, comments, videos and a background that makes it inpossible to read any of the text?
So? iTunes seems pretty seamless to me and I can run it on Windows or a Mac.
I realize this is an opinion piece, but really did the writer base any of this on fact? Go ahead and call me a fanboy. I admit, I like my iPod. If I want a FM tuner, I can get one pretty cheap. If I want movies from all the major studios, I just have to wait. Just like the TV shows, movie studios will eventually sign on. My Opinion, is that the Zune won't be around next Christmas.
That's nothing.
I still have nightmares from all that Minesweeper carnage.
Plus as we all know, 73% of all statistics are made up.
agreed. why would the RIAA and MPAA be going after youtube and not individual users like thay have in the past?
Well that and he lost his shirt every other episode.
Imagine how many communicator pins they'd go through.
Okay before anyone rips my head off for this, I realize that Nintendo didn't actually make the Power Glove. I meant simply that it was an NES compatible device.
I'm afraid I have to agree with this. First of all, Nintendo themselves have done this before. It was called the Power Glove last time.
Obviously the Wiimote is quite a step up in technology, but not enough to call it "innovative'.
FTA:
Okay she can't be serious. She's comparing video game addiction to cancer. How does anyone take her seriously after a statement like that?
Although in her defense, I used to get crippling cases of "nintendo-thumb" back in my youth.
Am I the only one who read this and thought, been there, done that?
I was amazed that I didn't see anyone mention the movie The Running Man.
Interesting. When I created my main, a human female Paladin, I went with the theory that I'd be spending a lot of time with that character on screen. However, since then I've varied my characters and now have a male human rogue, a female NE druid, a male Gnomish mage, a female Gnomish warlock, a male NE priest, a female human Warrior and a male Dwarven hunter. I was going to have a male and female of each alliance race but I couldn't bring myself to creating a female Dwarf.
Oddly enough my two Horde characters are a male UD warlock and a male Tauren shaman.
Although I think that in all cases I created a character that was asthetically pleasing to me. That's probably why I could never make a female dwarf character or a female tauren character. Just because they look so damn rediculous.
...and yes I spend too much time playing this game too.
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For Gnomeregan!
But Wait... where does this leave Atlantis?
I'm sorry the gate address you've dialed is no longer in service. Please check the gate address and dial again.
Or maybe one of the following:
1. The ZPM factory is on Earth and hasn't been discovered yet. The outpost in Antarctica was only recently discovered. Perhaps the factory is somewhere else on the planet.
2. The ZPM factory isn't on Earth and hasn't been discovered yet. The stargates contain naquadah so it stands to reason that a ZPM would as well or perhaps naquadria. In either case, neither substance is native to Earth and therefore making the ZPM factory on Earth would be illogical.
3. There isn't a factory. If there are only a handful of outposts in the Milky Way and Pegasus and considering how long the ZPMs hold a charge, it's possible that there where only a few dozen created in a lab environment. Given that many of of the systems of Atlantis can be powered by a handful of naquadah generators, it's possible they didn't foresee needing more than a small number. Why use the nuclear reactor if you can get by on some AA batteries.
4. The ZPM factory is infact on Atlantis. They've only explored 50% of the city. While they have schematics that say what things are, it may not say ZPM lab. Additionally, since they'd only decoded a fraction of the ancient database, perhaps the instructions for building a ZPM are in the database.
It's not lazy writing, it's a careful balance of leaving enough plots holes to keep your future story options open without creating so many holes the story falls apart. If they'd found a room in Atlantis stocked full of charges ZPMs there really wouldn't be anywhere for the Atlantis storyline to go.
I'd have to agree. Why isn't the senate looking into the MPAA rating board?
My first piece of evidence against that rating system would be the movie Nuns on the Run
This movie is rated PG-13 but it has a scene in a girl's shower with multiple full-frontal shots.
How is it that our elected officials are more concerned about video game characters having sex than they are about 13 year olds seeing the movie equivalent of a Playboy?
Maybe it's just all of my insane relatives, but none of them run windows update. Ever. Maybe that has to do with it taking hours to download on their dial-up connections.
Additionally, I don't see this as a big issue. If people would code their sites to comform to browser standards, instead of making them IE friendly, they would have nothing to worry about
Ah but does it run linux?
oh wait.... yeah I guess it does. And I thought that that slashdotism worked for everything. Grrr...
On a serious note (sort of), I want one of these to chase my cat around.
I just love studies based on speculation. Nothing like guessing at what the legal cost would have been if the person had been tried without the death penalty. I'm sorry but that arguement isn't going to float with me. A person fighting live in prison is going to cost just as much in appeals and legal fees as a person fighting the death penalty, especially if he/she is really innocent
Let's consider a hypothetical situation. Let's say Bob is a 19 year old gang member who walks into McDonald's one day and guns down 30 people. Let's look at our options. First there's the death penalty, long drawn out legal battle lasting years. Eventually, he runs out of appeals and is executed. End of story. Second there's life in prison without possibility of parol. Same long drawn out appeal process. Ends in Bob in prison for the rest of his life.
Now explain to me how it can possibly be cheaper to feed, clothe, provide shelter and guard for Bob for the next 40-60 years.
I realize that there are probably innocent people that have been put to death by mistake. But that is a failure elsewhere in the system. We should be pointing fingers at the cops who falsify evidence and ignore proper procedure. Besides would you rather that person is caged the rest of his life? That's not living either.