You must be new here. Welcome to Slashdot where if you don't have some piece of crap iRiver or half-functional Zen hanging from your toolbelt you're cast as an effeminate Apple fanboi.
According to anybody the least bit familiar with numbers? That's generally how they work - the higher magnitude numbers go to the left. Anybody who can count higher than nine is surely familiar with the concept.
It sounds like you spend too much time interacting with machines and not enough time interacting with people.
What's wrong with the Eurocentric DD Month Year? It fits with how our brains work in relation to time. When someone is telling me a date I don't need to know that it's this year first, then this month, then some day.
20 October 2005 is better than 2005-10-20 because my brain sees "20th" and I, knowing today's date, can easily decide if the person is talking about today or not, or if the date might be in the future or past. The next bit is the month which tells me if it's the recent past or near future, and the last bit is the year which tells me if it's in the distant future or distant past. A quick glance at "20 October 2005" tells me that the date is soon. "2005 20 10" gives me big concepts to digest first which might not even be necessary, while leaving the most important and specific details for last.
By your method, addresses would be written:
United States
17745, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania
Lock Haven University
McEntire Hall
Room 545
Jim Smith
All the bluster about the EU "taking over" the Internet is actually a move to have the Internet administered in much the same way as the international telephone service.
Oh, good. I though there was something to worry abo&*$(3zz.. NO CARRIER
This is a common myth. There's no reason the cities you mention in the southern United States can't have subways. Look at Amsterdam, which is below sea level, yet still has a subway system.
In fact, Houston has auto tunnels running beneath the Houston Ship Channel (one active, one decommissioned), but somehow people there think they can't have a subway line. It's just small-town thinking in a large city.
almost $1/song is nuts especially when it's just a file on my computer, in a lossy format, with no physical presence whatsoever.
If you want a physical presence for your song, you can always print it out.
And then, if your hard drive bites it, you can always type the song back in from the printout.
Admit it, most of the PSP games out right now are just rehashed PS2 games that are not designed for handheld play.
Well, on this point you probably know a lot more than I do. I'm not a gamer. I hadn't played a video game since my Lynx maybe five or ten years before I got my PSPs. I'm afraid I don't know if these are retreads of PS2 games because I never had a PS1 or PS2, so as they say, "It's new to me!" I bought a PSP instead of a PS2 because I want something small, neat, and without wires.
I have about ten games in my library, and I like all of them except for Metal Gear Acid. I think they're all pretty well done.
I'd rather upgrade to 2.0 and have a functioning web browser, AAC, and H.264 support than be able to run crappy home-made programs and support pirates.
Both my wife an I had 1.0 Japanese PSPs. Upgraded them as soon as it was available a few weeks ago. Never looked back.
iTunes has something slightly similar. It counts the number of times a song has been played all the way through. You're able to use that to create "most often" and "least often" playlists. It's probably possible to use it other ways that I don't know about.
They've been doing something like this at the Marshall Field's department store in downtown Chicago for a couple of years, but they use IR instead of Bluetooth. Look for a small sign on the Randolph Street side of the building near either the Bose or Yahoo! display window (I forget which).
I haven't looked for it in a while, but I remember it being there as recently as April.
Play "Blue Screen of Death"
Man, you're taking me back. I haven't had a decent game of BSoD since 1999. I just can't get it to run properly in Win2k, and I hear XP is even worse at it.
Actually, the game is still there. It's just called "Spontaneously Reset" now, so you don't get to see the blue screen.
"Guess Which Driver Is Causing A Problem Today."
Haven't they ported that one to Linux now? I'm sure I've seen a lot of comments bitching about how unstable NVidia's Linux drivers are. Or possibly ATI's. Or maybe even both. I kind of lost track after the first hundred.
I couldn't tell you, Coward. I use a Mac, so everything "just works."
Play "Blue Screen of Death" and "Guess Which Driver Is Causing A Problem Today."
Today the Microsoft database index at work ate itself and I'm waiting seven hours for it to re-index a couple of million documents. I said to one of the guys trying to fix things, "How come every time you guys tell me something bad it begins with the word 'Microsoft?'"
Is this related to the fact that NetBSD is in so many of my PSP games? I'm not a *BSD guy, so I'm not really sure if they're related. But the pages of the manuals that deal with wireless functions always have the word "NetBSD" mixed in with the Japanese text.
You make a good point. He has a very similar traffic graph as a web site I run, which has 90,000 uniques per month (as measured by Tribal Fusion.) I think his 200,000 number is not entirely accurate.
Do you have some stereotyped image of Japanese people squeezed into closets that are big enough for them and their PS2, but small enough that the extra cubic foot of an xbox would cause them to suffocate?
Spoken like someone who's never been to Japan, and never lived in a Japanese home.
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I'm sorry, sir. You seem very intelligent and well informed. We'll have to revoke your Slashdot posting permit.
They're actually 79p in the UK. But that doesn't support for Apple-bashing.
there simply is no "anti-iPod" faction out there
You must be new here. Welcome to Slashdot where if you don't have some piece of crap iRiver or half-functional Zen hanging from your toolbelt you're cast as an effeminate Apple fanboi.
According to anybody the least bit familiar with numbers? That's generally how they work - the higher magnitude numbers go to the left. Anybody who can count higher than nine is surely familiar with the concept.
It sounds like you spend too much time interacting with machines and not enough time interacting with people.
What's wrong with the Eurocentric DD Month Year? It fits with how our brains work in relation to time. When someone is telling me a date I don't need to know that it's this year first, then this month, then some day.
20 October 2005 is better than 2005-10-20 because my brain sees "20th" and I, knowing today's date, can easily decide if the person is talking about today or not, or if the date might be in the future or past. The next bit is the month which tells me if it's the recent past or near future, and the last bit is the year which tells me if it's in the distant future or distant past. A quick glance at "20 October 2005" tells me that the date is soon. "2005 20 10" gives me big concepts to digest first which might not even be necessary, while leaving the most important and specific details for last.
By your method, addresses would be written:
United States
17745, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania
Lock Haven University
McEntire Hall
Room 545
Jim Smith
Completely bass ackwards.
All the bluster about the EU "taking over" the Internet is actually a move to have the Internet administered in much the same way as the international telephone service.
Oh, good. I though there was something to worry abo&*$(3zz.. NO CARRIER
They can't build subways (water table issue)
This is a common myth. There's no reason the cities you mention in the southern United States can't have subways. Look at Amsterdam, which is below sea level, yet still has a subway system.
In fact, Houston has auto tunnels running beneath the Houston Ship Channel (one active, one decommissioned), but somehow people there think they can't have a subway line. It's just small-town thinking in a large city.
almost $1/song is nuts especially when it's just a file on my computer, in a lossy format, with no physical presence whatsoever.
If you want a physical presence for your song, you can always print it out.
And then, if your hard drive bites it, you can always type the song back in from the printout.
(Ah... memories of Compute!'s Gazette.)
By the way: nice web site (your gadget site).
Admit it, most of the PSP games out right now are just rehashed PS2 games that are not designed for handheld play.
Well, on this point you probably know a lot more than I do. I'm not a gamer. I hadn't played a video game since my Lynx maybe five or ten years before I got my PSPs. I'm afraid I don't know if these are retreads of PS2 games because I never had a PS1 or PS2, so as they say, "It's new to me!" I bought a PSP instead of a PS2 because I want something small, neat, and without wires.
I have about ten games in my library, and I like all of them except for Metal Gear Acid. I think they're all pretty well done.
There are over 80 games out now. Where are you shopping? Best Buy?
I'd rather upgrade to 2.0 and have a functioning web browser, AAC, and H.264 support than be able to run crappy home-made programs and support pirates.
Both my wife an I had 1.0 Japanese PSPs. Upgraded them as soon as it was available a few weeks ago. Never looked back.
iTunes has something slightly similar. It counts the number of times a song has been played all the way through. You're able to use that to create "most often" and "least often" playlists. It's probably possible to use it other ways that I don't know about.
Since you didn't tell us what town you're in, how are we supposed to be able to answer the question?
Oh, silly me. I didn't recognize an off-topic Bush bashing when I first read your comment.
Does your post get you a dollar from the Democratic Party's astroturf fund?
I rip it myself because iTunes (and others) doesn't provide sufficient quality.
Yeah. Lossless sucks. Dumbass
Now why don't you go back to cobbling together your PIII in the basement. The adults are talking now.
They've been doing something like this at the Marshall Field's department store in downtown Chicago for a couple of years, but they use IR instead of Bluetooth. Look for a small sign on the Randolph Street side of the building near either the Bose or Yahoo! display window (I forget which).
I haven't looked for it in a while, but I remember it being there as recently as April.
Sounds like you need a Mac.
Play "Blue Screen of Death"
Man, you're taking me back. I haven't had a decent game of BSoD since 1999. I just can't get it to run properly in Win2k, and I hear XP is even worse at it.
Actually, the game is still there. It's just called "Spontaneously Reset" now, so you don't get to see the blue screen.
"Guess Which Driver Is Causing A Problem Today."
Haven't they ported that one to Linux now? I'm sure I've seen a lot of comments bitching about how unstable NVidia's Linux drivers are. Or possibly ATI's. Or maybe even both. I kind of lost track after the first hundred.
I couldn't tell you, Coward. I use a Mac, so everything "just works."
Yeah, no kidding. It's not exactly the best journalism on the internet.
And he writes that GUI stands for "general user interface." I guess this is what happens when Microsoft is writing your history.
Play "Blue Screen of Death" and "Guess Which Driver Is Causing A Problem Today."
Today the Microsoft database index at work ate itself and I'm waiting seven hours for it to re-index a couple of million documents. I said to one of the guys trying to fix things, "How come every time you guys tell me something bad it begins with the word 'Microsoft?'"
Lock the barn. Hide you farm animals. The pigs are nervous.
This could lead to more cases like this one.
Is this related to the fact that NetBSD is in so many of my PSP games? I'm not a *BSD guy, so I'm not really sure if they're related. But the pages of the manuals that deal with wireless functions always have the word "NetBSD" mixed in with the Japanese text.
You make a good point. He has a very similar traffic graph as a web site I run, which has 90,000 uniques per month (as measured by Tribal Fusion.) I think his 200,000 number is not entirely accurate.
Do you have some stereotyped image of Japanese people squeezed into closets that are big enough for them and their PS2, but small enough that the extra cubic foot of an xbox would cause them to suffocate?
Spoken like someone who's never been to Japan, and never lived in a Japanese home.
You are very correct. In Japan, size is everything and smaller is better when it comes to video games.
The XboX fits nicely into American living rooms, but is far too large for Japanese homes. The 360 looks like an improvement, but not too much.
Look at the new Nintendo box (Revolution is it called?) -- ass tiny. That, and the Nintendo name, will help sell it.
A strange claim, considering the fact that Albert Einstein was able to wrap his brain around both science and religion and accept both in his life.
When you're as enlightened as he, get back to us.
Thinking people don't presume to speak for all thinking people.