The article also talks about SanDisk's subversive new anti-iPod advertising campaign which calls iPod owners 'iChimps'
What was the executive meeting for that one? "Hey, boss! Let's insult the hell out of our target market!"
and uses a 'street graffiti style' to create the illusion of a 'counter-culture uprising against the iPod'.
And nothing says "street cred" like a modern Western corporation. Hey, I be down wit dat, um, dogg... or word, or whatever. Shizzle-something.
The writer says, 'SanDisk is the first company to market its player as an ideological rather than technological alternative to the iPod.
Thanks SanDisk! I was just thinking this morning that, gosh, there simply is not enough mental illness^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H ideology in this world.
I use Realbasic to write elaborate control systems for the hardware I design. My systems are basically one large entity that spans hardware, firmware (FPGAs) and the Realbasic apps on PCs. I use it as an alternative to LabView which is an abomination. There's a cheap plug-in available for GPIB bus, open source drivers for parallel port access and serial and Ethernet are built into the language. Talk to the world nicely. I usually have one program that transparently controls local equipment and stuff many miles away at the transmit or receive site (I'm in communications).
Realbasic is also nicely object oriented. And a basic license is $99.
Here comes the melodrama and the river of tears from all the wannabe ragtag rebels.
Let's see how many comparisons to [1] China, [2] the Gestappo and [3] the worst police state *EVER* we can rack up, boys! Get to it!
Bonus points for anyone able to get Hitler, the Knights Templar and Caligula into the same piss poor analogy.
I know this will just get blasted as troll and flamebait, but it's a fair observation that much of the commentary on/. when it comes to current events is that of naive 3rd gradeers.
I've heard many people (including my mother, who is what normal people would call a geek) complain that interfaces are getting too complicated on newer cell phone model
The same thing happened to aftermarket car audio. I got a an MP3/CD unit for my truck a few years back. I went to program my stations, and I think it takes less button presses to arm and launch a cruise missile from a submarine that it did to program station slots. Then to select one of those station presets was another complicated series of clicks which basically eliminated the point of presets. It was easier to hold the tuning button until I got to the station I wanted.
Although it's expensive, I opt for the premium factory systems in my vehicles now. Stpre a station? Hold down one of the the big preset buttons for a second or so. Hear beep. Done.
Back in the 80s in HS, I wrote a story about a guy who killed puppies and shot his landlord. It was an experiment in scene writing, and the point was to be shocking. I didn't turn that one in for an assignment, but copies made the rounds and brought me sliver of noteriety. A teacher got ahold of it and said, in spite of the subject matter, it was well written.
Oddly, I grew up productive and law abiding and what one mught call financially successful.
What would happen under today's zero tolerance rules?
The lens doesn't have ANYTHING to do with it. Nope. Nada. Not a thing.
This reminds me of a quip Jay Leno made years ago when he was still guesting on Letterman. He asked what the point of Twisted Sister on CD was. Are we missing some subtle nuance lost in older analog media?
So now instead of 1-2 megapixel poorly lit, blurry shots up some woman's skirt, we'll see 8 megapixel poorly lit, blurry shots up some woman's skirt.
I can't help thinking these motion sensitive controllers are the Atari Mindlink all over again. It makes for mondo video clips of people slashing a virtual sword, but the the early adopters will try doing that for a couple hours... and, yeah, I know you can do the thing with little flicks. It's still going to be annoying.
And how does one get into a lawsuit over a controller's rumble function? My employer blocks, for some reason, gaming news sites.
Why not fix the socio-political problems of these regions so the infrastructures -> people can become healthy?
Because many of the problems are unfixable without dismantling the political structures of those countries, and, well, seems people get a tad upset when we do that.
The conspiracy theory wonks are mentally ill. You could take them back in time to stand and watch the plane crash, and they still wouldn't believe you.
Why is it with every story like this, there's a steady contingent of people who post, "Pffft! Well, that powers the country for one billionth of a second! Nice try, losers!"
Everything starts somewhere. Remember, at some point in history, there was one oil well.
You always hear about the millions upon millions of dollars spent developing these consoles. And then you get a system that is, well, it's OK, but I can't figure out what ate the development costs. Other than the controller, everything is an existing standard with off the shelf chips to support them.
Where I work we elaborate communications equipment an order of magnitude more complex than a PS3. Our current design only cost a quarter million to develop. And it's space qualified and rad-hard.
Can someone tell me where all the endless million go in game console development?
Even odds across what time period? I can't find that crucial piece of opinion anywhere? Pretty much everything possible becomes an even money gamble across a sufficiently large time span.
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What was the executive meeting for that one? "Hey, boss! Let's insult the hell out of our target market!"
and uses a 'street graffiti style' to create the illusion of a 'counter-culture uprising against the iPod'.
And nothing says "street cred" like a modern Western corporation. Hey, I be down wit dat, um, dogg... or word, or whatever. Shizzle-something.
The writer says, 'SanDisk is the first company to market its player as an ideological rather than technological alternative to the iPod.
Thanks SanDisk! I was just thinking this morning that, gosh, there simply is not enough mental illness^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H ideology in this world.
Realbasic is also nicely object oriented. And a basic license is $99.
Your response is so typical. I suggest that people overreact to things like this, and you assume I'm for no controls on the government at all.
Power corrupts; Absolute power corrupts absolutely.
Yup. And then a tired cliche. Check.
Remember that the media all over the world paints the worst picture it can of everything. I've seen it in the EU and Australia.
We'll do just fine. You go back to your little "make fun" game.
Let's see how many comparisons to [1] China, [2] the Gestappo and [3] the worst police state *EVER* we can rack up, boys! Get to it!
Bonus points for anyone able to get Hitler, the Knights Templar and Caligula into the same piss poor analogy.
I know this will just get blasted as troll and flamebait, but it's a fair observation that much of the commentary on /. when it comes to current events is that of naive 3rd gradeers.
Mod me down, if you will. You know I am right.
Although it's expensive, I opt for the premium factory systems in my vehicles now. Stpre a station? Hold down one of the the big preset buttons for a second or so. Hear beep. Done.
I'm sorry, but this must be some usage of the word "perfect" of which I was previously unaware.
Is this like "The Bush Administration waged a war in Iraq, which took them a while to perfect"?
Oddly, I grew up productive and law abiding and what one mught call financially successful.
What would happen under today's zero tolerance rules?
This reminds me of a quip Jay Leno made years ago when he was still guesting on Letterman. He asked what the point of Twisted Sister on CD was. Are we missing some subtle nuance lost in older analog media?
So now instead of 1-2 megapixel poorly lit, blurry shots up some woman's skirt, we'll see 8 megapixel poorly lit, blurry shots up some woman's skirt.
And how does one get into a lawsuit over a controller's rumble function? My employer blocks, for some reason, gaming news sites.
Because many of the problems are unfixable without dismantling the political structures of those countries, and, well, seems people get a tad upset when we do that.
They need medication, not videotape.
Everything starts somewhere. Remember, at some point in history, there was one oil well.
That doesn't parse. Why would reinventing the car necessarily destroy blue collar jobs?
Move Earth closer to Jupiter.
Was that a low blow?
Why, yes. Yes it was.
...can we, like, have FF12 first? Some day?
Where I work we elaborate communications equipment an order of magnitude more complex than a PS3. Our current design only cost a quarter million to develop. And it's space qualified and rad-hard.
Can someone tell me where all the endless million go in game console development?
Dude, Microsoft owes you a fee or something. You just sold me on an XBox 360.
Yes. Forces of the universe called the laws of physics.
...and then Darwin rules the day.
Oh, cheer up. It's Christmas. :)
I'm flabbergasted!
Even odds across what time period? I can't find that crucial piece of opinion anywhere? Pretty much everything possible becomes an even money gamble across a sufficiently large time span.
Cite? All the real experts I have read want to throttle the world media for creating mass hysteria.