http://www.ultimatebaseballonline.com/ (Warning: Very IE biased)
All the "technical limitations" mentioned elsewhere in this story aren't present - very rarely do you drop a catch from lag, or miss a pitch because of the same. Of course it helps if you're on broadband.
What is it about blogs anyway that makes more people trustworthy of them? Personally, I'll read them, but if I had to use a site like Gamespot or IGN, or a blog as my only source of info, it'd be one of the bigger sites hands-down. Do people trust them because they perceieve them as one of us, or what?
As mentioned in the article, it comes down to the ethics of journalism, not present in blogs, but are in the bigger sites. And now with advertisers catching on to blogging, there's really no advantage to them.
Great move from Palm, especially to counter MS' Smartphone and/or PocketPC Phone Edition. If Palm can manage decent battery life - especially important because people don't want their PDA to die out when their phone dies too - Palm could have something here.
The new product lines will be something to keep your eye on, even more interstingly how this will affect their normal PDAs with PocketPC's rising market share.
What's the current price of production of something like this - is it more efficent to use this where you'd use diamonds normally? PDF link wasn't working for me, so apologies if this was already mentioned.
Will the general consumer and hobbyist care if some company they've never heard of say they can't do this? Linux isn't burning down due to SCO, neither will stuff like NoCatAuth.
Don't expect T-Mobile and other companies that do this to take this lieing down. Hopefully they'll jack up their prices so more fight it.
Between this and the Podcasting article, one thing is to be for sure:
Slashdot is looking to become the next media giant
I, for one, welcome our new Slashdot overlords?
All we need now...
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...are some decent shows to subscribe too! For some reason, I can't see The Scripting News catching on for the general populace.
Awesome idea though, just shows all the cool things you can do with RSS. Here's hoping Apple's next MP3 player will support WiFi for Shoutcast streams.
Could this be one of the first nails in the coffin for the PSP, with the DS beating it to market by several months? In the console market, the PS2 was able to gain a huge advantage by being first out. This could be crippling for the PSP if Nintendo plays their cards right.
It's hard to buy a computer without a DVD-ROM drive these days, unless you explicitly remove it, say on Dell's site. And, as another poster mentioned, you'll certainly have one if you're a gamer.
We need a game for DVDs that did what Myst did to CD-ROMs.
Something like this will probably really appeal to the high-end digital photographers, with the CF slot in it. Shame there's only a 320x240 screen though, PDAs are slowly making their way out of that resolution (although I do understand that pushing any more pixels than that will require substantial processor power)
Can any photography buffs out there see themselves using something like this? A step up from the storage bricks I could imagine.
Unfortunately (depending on who you ask - personally I'm a PocketPC fan) Palm-powerred devices are going down the drain in terms of market share. They made the right decision in splitting off their hardware and OS department. I'd expect to see PalmOS go into more appliances - the Tapwave Zodiac is a great example of this.
One thing that's always irked me is the attitude of the Palm community in general with new features. It's basically "we don't need that!" when presented with a competing platform's feature, and lo and behold, 2-3 generations later, it's being touted as a huge feature, and people are clamoring over it!
For reference's sake, I've used a PalmOS IIIxe, a iPaq H3600, H3900, and a Tapwave Zodiac. Carry the Zodiac, but primarily because of emulators.
Slashdot Mirror
eat this right up!
*ahem*
So sorry.
Spam + IM (instant messanging) = SPIM.
All I have to say is THANK GOD. ICQ was destroyed by spam for many people, and AIM is heading down that path.
If anyone is looking out for this, prepare to shell out a really shiny penny, as you won't see this in the US.
No he doesn't - he simply thinks that lower hardware prices will reduce piracy. Whether you agree with him is another point entirely.
Boy, I thought Slashdot was getting bad with dupes, but they had this one back in the 80s!
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http://www.atarimuseum.com/videogames/consoles/
(Yes, this is supposed to be funny)
Has no one ever heard of this game before?
http://www.ultimatebaseballonline.com/ (Warning: Very IE biased)
All the "technical limitations" mentioned elsewhere in this story aren't present - very rarely do you drop a catch from lag, or miss a pitch because of the same. Of course it helps if you're on broadband.
What is it about blogs anyway that makes more people trustworthy of them? Personally, I'll read them, but if I had to use a site like Gamespot or IGN, or a blog as my only source of info, it'd be one of the bigger sites hands-down. Do people trust them because they perceieve them as one of us, or what?
As mentioned in the article, it comes down to the ethics of journalism, not present in blogs, but are in the bigger sites. And now with advertisers catching on to blogging, there's really no advantage to them.
Great move from Palm, especially to counter MS' Smartphone and/or PocketPC Phone Edition. If Palm can manage decent battery life - especially important because people don't want their PDA to die out when their phone dies too - Palm could have something here.
The new product lines will be something to keep your eye on, even more interstingly how this will affect their normal PDAs with PocketPC's rising market share.
What's the current price of production of something like this - is it more efficent to use this where you'd use diamonds normally? PDF link wasn't working for me, so apologies if this was already mentioned.
Stock up now for the cold winter ahead!
"We've got nothing. Suckered you along there for a while, didn't we!"
I'm waiting for a company to try and do something like that.
It's also sad when other countries don't try to appeal to voters.
Will the general consumer and hobbyist care if some company they've never heard of say they can't do this? Linux isn't burning down due to SCO, neither will stuff like NoCatAuth.
Don't expect T-Mobile and other companies that do this to take this lieing down. Hopefully they'll jack up their prices so more fight it.
Between this and the Podcasting article, one thing is to be for sure:
Slashdot is looking to become the next media giant
I, for one, welcome our new Slashdot overlords?
...are some decent shows to subscribe too! For some reason, I can't see The Scripting News catching on for the general populace.
Awesome idea though, just shows all the cool things you can do with RSS. Here's hoping Apple's next MP3 player will support WiFi for Shoutcast streams.
Could this be one of the first nails in the coffin for the PSP, with the DS beating it to market by several months? In the console market, the PS2 was able to gain a huge advantage by being first out. This could be crippling for the PSP if Nintendo plays their cards right.
2005 should be an interesting year for handhelds.
It's hard to buy a computer without a DVD-ROM drive these days, unless you explicitly remove it, say on Dell's site. And, as another poster mentioned, you'll certainly have one if you're a gamer.
We need a game for DVDs that did what Myst did to CD-ROMs.
Something like this will probably really appeal to the high-end digital photographers, with the CF slot in it. Shame there's only a 320x240 screen though, PDAs are slowly making their way out of that resolution (although I do understand that pushing any more pixels than that will require substantial processor power)
Can any photography buffs out there see themselves using something like this? A step up from the storage bricks I could imagine.
Actually, I believe Pepsi let go of 7-Up completly - that's why Sierra Mist has replaced 7-Up everywhere.
Unfortunately (depending on who you ask - personally I'm a PocketPC fan) Palm-powerred devices are going down the drain in terms of market share. They made the right decision in splitting off their hardware and OS department. I'd expect to see PalmOS go into more appliances - the Tapwave Zodiac is a great example of this. One thing that's always irked me is the attitude of the Palm community in general with new features. It's basically "we don't need that!" when presented with a competing platform's feature, and lo and behold, 2-3 generations later, it's being touted as a huge feature, and people are clamoring over it! For reference's sake, I've used a PalmOS IIIxe, a iPaq H3600, H3900, and a Tapwave Zodiac. Carry the Zodiac, but primarily because of emulators.
So much for a balanced political debate at Slashdot Politics? I thought the whole point of this was to combat the one-sided and inaccurate media?