At $200 it might be okay for somethings, but $400 still seems a little steep
The latest iteration of these go for about $1200.00, which is just crazy in my estimation, however the $400.00 to me is reasonable, just for the freedom of not having a smoking-hot notebook in my lap. The thing runs cold as a stone. Also I have been using it for 3 years and really nothing to wear out 'cept the battery and the stylus.
Since I am not a video/gamer the video quality is OK for what I use it for. The active matrix is neat, (use your fingernail as a stylus) and at 600 X 800 is just about right for what I need as well.
It's a great idea/product, but unfortunately it bombed in the marketplace. I am writing this reply with mine. I love it! All it really is is a remote desktop slave, but I can administrate my whole network from my living room while watching a movie, lounging on the couch.
When it first came out ~2002, they were a little less than a full-featured notebook computer. I got mine in early 2004 from a company that buys pallets of discontinued tech prodcts for $400.00, (that price included ALL the accessories available at the time... Charging cradle/Stand, keyboard, extra battery). At the original price of ~$1100.00 it wasn't really worth it for all but the most serious early adopters.
Even with it being wireless "B" it's pretty fast for most things, screen refreshes on webpages for example are just a little slower than the machine it's connected to.
Overall... Great concept, good design, decent implementation, poor marketing and original pricing.
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It is true that there are some curmudgeons out there - mostly associated with Good Ol' Boy networks of the ultra-rich, entitled, privilaged, and (largely) conservative elite.
Surely, Hyatt is not one of the conservatives you talk about. After all, being a well connected democrat helps to make a lot of money. Having money -or- being well-connected does not mean that person is conservative. His father in-law was/is none other than Howard Metzenbaum (D-Ohio).
I know you qualified your statement with 'largely', but his fortune came after they changed the laws about attorneys being able to advertise on TV. Everybody knows that finding a conservative lawyer is like finding a four-leaf clover. (you have to look really, really hard)
... Is a bigger issue by far than this. I really liked that way better then NexTag for finding pricey stuff.
I think that with every reduction/reintrodution of their branded search itemization they lose a little stature. If I have to figure out that "Products" used to be Froogle then the user has to re-discover what they know is already there. Familiarity breeds success when you're talking eyeballs.
Not to go off topic, but reducing the stature of Froogle is no different than Yahoo jacking their site around and how I always used to use my personal page for TV listings. Since they went web 2.0 on that I haven't been back. How can you wreck a data-listing of upcoming TV shows. Yahoo does now, look at the forums sometime, lotta pissed off users. What used to take a quick glance is now 10 minutes of scrolling and refreshing the screen with more ads.
Simple, Don't take the party plane near Thailand.
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*ADVICE*
Next time you want real Thai food, go to the corner emigre's restaurant instead, yes I know it's so much fun to fill up the party plane and jet on over, but seriously, you'll get to enjoy your freedom...
*FUN FACT* Did you know that the word Thai means "Freedom"?
I didn't follow your link, however, consider that just maybe the increased price directly reflects the additional costs associated with EU regs/lawsuits and your lovely VAT tax.
Corporations always price their products to cover expenses, liability, risk and corporate taxes. It is rarely arbitrary (i.e. "soak the EU"), it is more along the lines of "cover our projected expenses and add our desired profit".
Patents are a necessary part of scientific development. Doesn't mean I'll defend the current system, but pretty much any scientist will admit that some form of patent protection is abolutely necessary for many forms of research.
Don't forget the legal liabilty protection needed to bring a 'potentially' dangerous drug to the market.
If drugs were made by non-profits, charities and/or the government, the liklihood of bringing a lawsuit against something other than a deep-pocketed capitalist enterprise would be pretty difficult. Don't expect the lawyers to ever let this revenue stream to slip from their grasp.!
Seriously though, Jobs is really putting his foot in it if he thinks we are to believe his current bluster. He can sell this example above like thousands of others that are available on Emusic All DRM-free (of course)!
New Poll: Who plays "Linux" in the commercial?
- The Geico Lizard
- Scarlett Johansson
- Jonny Lee Miller aka Zero Cool
- Carrie-Anne Moss
- CowboyNeal
None of the above: Though this guy would have to be my pick! -The Geico Caveman
That's always a problem with OEM OS loads.This Quick Reference Should clear up some issues for those who are not already aware.
I always figure in a new OEM copy whenever a board goes. You'll waste more time than is neccessary to try to save $139.00, but you saved a lot of money buying that replacement board from NewEgg. It sucks but other than sending it to (in this case EMachines) neither Microsoft -or- EMachines have no idea what happened to your hardware that your OEM OS is tied to.
Tasks requiring the perception of agency activate the posterior superior temporal cortex (pSTC), particularly in the right hemisphere
Wow, that is one informative article. I can't wait for the countering study that concludes the 'Greed' center of the brain has been found just opposite the posterior superior temporal cortex and there is big fight on the opposite left side of the brain in the soon to be named 'AynRandian degenerative temporal cortex'?
When I am onsite for service calls I always load up OOo for new installs. Most of my customers have peer-to-peer networks or are running Small Business Server. Outlook is a great program and if you have a SBS controlled domain every client gets their own copy of Outlook automatically. I do try to save them money on software so I can charge more for service calls:)
Wasn't there a painted around the turn of the century that did something similar though?
Georges Seurat is the painter I believe you are thinking of. His most famous painting (to my knowledge anyway) is A Sunday on La Grande Jatte--1884 located at The Art Institute of Chicago. There is even a Wikipedia page devoted to Seurat.
I'm sure being included in Ferris Buehler's Day Off helped to raise its profile. There is also a scale model in topiary here (very cool!)
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Jeeze what would happen to the so-called fake news shows? I've talked to FCC bureaurats and they don't have a sense of humor at all.
However redundant this may be, the diverse nature of media today surely makes any legislation of this type just plain stupid. I know Kucinich (before congress & after he was recalled [thrown out] as mayor of Cleveland) personally and anybody who follows him closely will know that the dictionary term demagogue fits Dennis to a 'T'
Demagogy (from Greek demos, "people", and agogos, "leading") refers to a political strategy for obtaining and gaining political power by appealing to the popular prejudices, fears and expectations of the public -- typically via impassioned rhetoric and propaganda, and often using nationalistic or populist themes.
The term is commonly used as a political pejorative: political opponents are described as "demagogues", while politicians approved of are "men of the people", or "statesmen".
"what in the world do I want a server in my home for?"
Newb User: Pretend I'm happenin' (calls his neighbor)
Average user: Check this out (calls Geek Squad)
Super user: I'll be the hit of the party now! (wastes 3 weeks trying to stream a video to his fashionable 98 box)
IT Guy: But will it run Linux?
Granted, but the battery will be dead in a year and the owner/user is probably not gonna bother getting a new battery anyway, like so many other small electronics with proprietary battery packs. Besides, about every 10 years or so retro-look items score big.
Which brings up another point of Zune-failure. To differentiate themselves from the rest of the market they could have made it with an easily changeable battery. My mini-disc recorders all use the Sony gumstick battery, while they are good and last awhile at least I can have several all charged-up and ready to go when the need arises and I don't have to bother crackin' the case and fitting -or- soldering a new battery into place.
Sure I like portability, but serviceability + portability would really make me consider it less than the failure it appears to be.
While you may think the color brown is unhip, you must understand that from a designer's and marketer's POV brown has been a 'HOT' color for at least the last year.
Now my background in color makes me recognize when color-trends take over. All you need to do is get out of your house/apartment/basements and go to a trendy store like Target, Crate and Barrel... etc. Casually look at accessories for your hip and swingin' pad and you will notice that a very dark blueish-brown color paired with either a cream-color, minty green or a greenish-blue (think a pale cyan here) with nickel plated hardware (brass is out) are all the rage.
Now you may not think brown in any form is hip, but since you are a small speck in the marketplace for items without IDE/SATA/USB/Fibre and/or RJ-45 connectors as standard equipment, you may not realize this trend.
I know it's fun to make fun of MS anything but I just thought I'd mention all this because no Zune article can be posted without poking fun at the "brown one" either purposely or subconsciously.
Yes, in my mind even I associate the color brown with shit, and while the Zune might be a POS on many levels, the brown one does not reinforce that fact. What tells me it's a POS is that MS only casually wants you to know the Zune is an MS product, that with the fact the wireless is crippled AND 'Plays4Sure' is unsupported.
What I want to know is what happens when they make a change to their page. Does that get covered too and all other (previous) versions not covered? After all, when you patent something, then change it you have to get another patent to cover the changes (keeps the lawyer-monkies busy). Rendering definitely has effects on overall design 'look & feel'. Copyright should be the issue, all others: natch....
Sounds as if they need electricians on staff to keep the power on. How in the hell can you be without power for 55 hours in an industrialized country? I guess they didn't want to splurge and get those generators after-all.
You're preaching to the choir here. I only made mention of an all-in-one system for an organization that size.
I believe the charts should stay with the doctor, whether they use digital -or- paper I don't particularly care. I like the idea of the patient being responsible for the transportation and storage of their own histories. Everyone gets all pinched up about privacy disclosures by 3rd parties, but the fact is the patient has more to gain by controlling their personal information than by 1 doctor, 6 specialists, 4 pharmacies, 3 different insurance companies and 7 billing companies having to. That is the reality of the current system.
Having sold/setup EMR & billing systems for private practices I can weigh in on this topic. No one system is going to be the silver bullet for efficiency. The software market in general for this is very diffused over a few of the popular titles most practices use, none of them easily 'talk' to one another. However that being said, Things are getting a bit better with the ANSI standard & HCL7 standard in regards to claims submissions and charting standards. Charting is a whole 'nother ball of wax. Doctors over 45 barely can use a computer let alone chart on one. For them they can continue to use paper and we scan their charts on a need basis. All-in all there are ways around centralization which makes sense. I would much rather see standards applied then to see centralization just for the sake of efficiency.
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The latest iteration of these go for about $1200.00, which is just crazy in my estimation, however the $400.00 to me is reasonable, just for the freedom of not having a smoking-hot notebook in my lap. The thing runs cold as a stone. Also I have been using it for 3 years and really nothing to wear out 'cept the battery and the stylus.
Since I am not a video/gamer the video quality is OK for what I use it for. The active matrix is neat, (use your fingernail as a stylus) and at 600 X 800 is just about right for what I need as well.
You mean like this?
It's a great idea/product, but unfortunately it bombed in the marketplace. I am writing this reply with mine. I love it! All it really is is a remote desktop slave, but I can administrate my whole network from my living room while watching a movie, lounging on the couch.
When it first came out ~2002, they were a little less than a full-featured notebook computer. I got mine in early 2004 from a company that buys pallets of discontinued tech prodcts for $400.00, (that price included ALL the accessories available at the time... Charging cradle/Stand, keyboard, extra battery). At the original price of ~$1100.00 it wasn't really worth it for all but the most serious early adopters.
Even with it being wireless "B" it's pretty fast for most things, screen refreshes on webpages for example are just a little slower than the machine it's connected to.
Overall... Great concept, good design, decent implementation, poor marketing and original pricing.
Surely, Hyatt is not one of the conservatives you talk about. After all, being a well connected democrat helps to make a lot of money. Having money -or- being well-connected does not mean that person is conservative. His father in-law was/is none other than Howard Metzenbaum (D-Ohio).
I know you qualified your statement with 'largely', but his fortune came after they changed the laws about attorneys being able to advertise on TV. Everybody knows that finding a conservative lawyer is like finding a four-leaf clover. (you have to look really, really hard)
... Is a bigger issue by far than this. I really liked that way better then NexTag for finding pricey stuff.
I think that with every reduction/reintrodution of their branded search itemization they lose a little stature. If I have to figure out that "Products" used to be Froogle then the user has to re-discover what they know is already there. Familiarity breeds success when you're talking eyeballs.
Not to go off topic, but reducing the stature of Froogle is no different than Yahoo jacking their site around and how I always used to use my personal page for TV listings. Since they went web 2.0 on that I haven't been back. How can you wreck a data-listing of upcoming TV shows. Yahoo does now, look at the forums sometime, lotta pissed off users. What used to take a quick glance is now 10 minutes of scrolling and refreshing the screen with more ads.
*ADVICE*
Next time you want real Thai food, go to the corner emigre's restaurant instead, yes I know it's so much fun to fill up the party plane and jet on over, but seriously, you'll get to enjoy your freedom...
*FUN FACT*
Did you know that the word Thai means "Freedom"?
I didn't follow your link, however, consider that just maybe the increased price directly reflects the additional costs associated with EU regs/lawsuits and your lovely VAT tax.
Corporations always price their products to cover expenses, liability, risk and corporate taxes. It is rarely arbitrary (i.e. "soak the EU"), it is more along the lines of "cover our projected expenses and add our desired profit".
Don't forget the legal liabilty protection needed to bring a 'potentially' dangerous drug to the market.
If drugs were made by non-profits, charities and/or the government, the liklihood of bringing a lawsuit against something other than a deep-pocketed capitalist enterprise would be pretty difficult. Don't expect the lawyers to ever let this revenue stream to slip from their grasp.!
Comcast!
For you skeptical types, it really is true that you can buy DRM-free music on ITunes.
You just need an Emusic account to do so!
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Seriously though, Jobs is really putting his foot in it if he thinks we are to believe his current bluster. He can sell this example above like thousands of others that are available on Emusic All DRM-free (of course)!
- The Geico Lizard
- Scarlett Johansson
- Jonny Lee Miller aka Zero Cool
- Carrie-Anne Moss
- CowboyNeal
None of the above: Though this guy would have to be my pick! -The Geico Caveman
</sarcasm>
They simply have no way of knowing.
That's always a problem with OEM OS loads.This Quick Reference Should clear up some issues for those who are not already aware.
I always figure in a new OEM copy whenever a board goes. You'll waste more time than is neccessary to try to save $139.00, but you saved a lot of money buying that replacement board from NewEgg. It sucks but other than sending it to (in this case EMachines) neither Microsoft -or- EMachines have no idea what happened to your hardware that your OEM OS is tied to.
Tasks requiring the perception of agency activate the posterior superior temporal cortex (pSTC), particularly in the right hemisphere
Wow, that is one informative article. I can't wait for the countering study that concludes the 'Greed' center of the brain has been found just opposite the posterior superior temporal cortex and there is big fight on the opposite left side of the brain in the soon to be named 'AynRandian degenerative temporal cortex'?
end:sarcasmYes, I concur.
When I am onsite for service calls I always load up OOo for new installs. Most of my customers have peer-to-peer networks or are running Small Business Server. Outlook is a great program and if you have a SBS controlled domain every client gets their own copy of Outlook automatically. I do try to save them money on software so I can charge more for service calls:)
Wasn't there a painted around the turn of the century that did something similar though?
Georges Seurat is the painter I believe you are thinking of. His most famous painting (to my knowledge anyway) is A Sunday on La Grande Jatte--1884 located at The Art Institute of Chicago. There is even a Wikipedia page devoted to Seurat.
I'm sure being included in Ferris Buehler's Day Off helped to raise its profile. There is also a scale model in topiary here (very cool!)
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Jeeze what would happen to the so-called fake news shows? I've talked to FCC bureaurats and they don't have a sense of humor at all.
However redundant this may be, the diverse nature of media today surely makes any legislation of this type just plain stupid. I know Kucinich (before congress & after he was recalled [thrown out] as mayor of Cleveland) personally and anybody who follows him closely will know that the dictionary term demagogue fits Dennis to a 'T'
Demagogy (from Greek demos, "people", and agogos, "leading") refers to a political strategy for obtaining and gaining political power by appealing to the popular prejudices, fears and expectations of the public -- typically via impassioned rhetoric and propaganda, and often using nationalistic or populist themes.
The term is commonly used as a political pejorative: political opponents are described as "demagogues", while politicians approved of are "men of the people", or "statesmen".
I won't block /. ads unless they start doing something to get them in my way.
I won't block /. ads, unless of course I'm a subscriber to /.
"what in the world do I want a server in my home for?"
Newb User: Pretend I'm happenin' (calls his neighbor)
Average user: Check this out (calls Geek Squad)
Super user: I'll be the hit of the party now! (wastes 3 weeks trying to stream a video to his fashionable 98 box)
IT Guy: But will it run Linux?
Cutting edge of computing design & Function: ~$2400.00
Cost of anuual upgrades: $129.00
Cost of TiVo for Mac: $100.00
Cost of wanting proprietary hardware and operating system: $Expensive$
Granted, but the battery will be dead in a year and the owner/user is probably not gonna bother getting a new battery anyway, like so many other small electronics with proprietary battery packs. Besides, about every 10 years or so retro-look items score big.
Which brings up another point of Zune-failure. To differentiate themselves from the rest of the market they could have made it with an easily changeable battery. My mini-disc recorders all use the Sony gumstick battery, while they are good and last awhile at least I can have several all charged-up and ready to go when the need arises and I don't have to bother crackin' the case and fitting -or- soldering a new battery into place.
Sure I like portability, but serviceability + portability would really make me consider it less than the failure it appears to be.
While you may think the color brown is unhip, you must understand that from a designer's and marketer's POV brown has been a 'HOT' color for at least the last year.
Now my background in color makes me recognize when color-trends take over. All you need to do is get out of your house/apartment/basements and go to a trendy store like Target, Crate and Barrel... etc. Casually look at accessories for your hip and swingin' pad and you will notice that a very dark blueish-brown color paired with either a cream-color, minty green or a greenish-blue (think a pale cyan here) with nickel plated hardware (brass is out) are all the rage.
Now you may not think brown in any form is hip, but since you are a small speck in the marketplace for items without IDE/SATA/USB/Fibre and/or RJ-45 connectors as standard equipment, you may not realize this trend.
I know it's fun to make fun of MS anything but I just thought I'd mention all this because no Zune article can be posted without poking fun at the "brown one" either purposely or subconsciously.Yes, in my mind even I associate the color brown with shit, and while the Zune might be a POS on many levels, the brown one does not reinforce that fact. What tells me it's a POS is that MS only casually wants you to know the Zune is an MS product, that with the fact the wireless is crippled AND 'Plays4Sure' is unsupported.
Hear Hear!
What I want to know is what happens when they make a change to their page. Does that get covered too and all other (previous) versions not covered?
After all, when you patent something, then change it you have to get another patent to cover the changes (keeps the lawyer-monkies busy).
Rendering definitely has effects on overall design 'look & feel'.
Copyright should be the issue, all others: natch....
I'm still partial to faux-bamboo.
Loungie-retro ROCKS!
Sounds as if they need electricians on staff to keep the power on. How in the hell can you be without power for 55 hours in an industrialized country? I guess they didn't want to splurge and get those generators after-all.
You're preaching to the choir here. I only made mention of an all-in-one system for an organization that size.
I believe the charts should stay with the doctor, whether they use digital -or- paper I don't particularly care. I like the idea of the patient being responsible for the transportation and storage of their own histories. Everyone gets all pinched up about privacy disclosures by 3rd parties, but the fact is the patient has more to gain by controlling their personal information than by 1 doctor, 6 specialists, 4 pharmacies, 3 different insurance companies and 7 billing companies having to. That is the reality of the current system.
Having sold/setup EMR & billing systems for private practices I can weigh in on this topic. No one system is going to be the silver bullet for efficiency. The software market in general for this is very diffused over a few of the popular titles most practices use, none of them easily 'talk' to one another. However that being said, Things are getting a bit better with the ANSI standard & HCL7 standard in regards to claims submissions and charting standards. Charting is a whole 'nother ball of wax. Doctors over 45 barely can use a computer let alone chart on one. For them they can continue to use paper and we scan their charts on a need basis. All-in all there are ways around centralization which makes sense. I would much rather see standards applied then to see centralization just for the sake of efficiency.