As much as I love reading actual paper, I find books awkward to hold. They never seem to stay open enough so I must struggle to keep them from closing. Is there some secret trick I'm missing on breaking books in so they're comfortable? A device like this that doesn't blast light into my eyes could be a great alternative.
Any word on how much work they put into protecting it from running home-brew software? I'm sure there are a million uses for electronic paper but only if we're allowed to do what we want with it.
And really I don't see what the problem is. With PSP their money comes from selling software. But with this reader most of the money will probably come from the hardware.
If I may be off-topic for a moment, I'm looking for another cheap MP3 player in the $40 range. I would rather spend that every couple years than $400 every couple years. Load up a 256mb SD card with music or internet radio shows and I'm perfectly happy. Anyone have some suggestions?
I think what we'll be seeing is hard-drive/flash hybrids. Flash to store the OS on for quick energy conserving access and the hard drive for everything else. Flash just isn't ready to handle large amounts of data and it has a limited ammount of writes before it goes bad.
Am I the only one who felt blatantly lied to about this game? Every video game publication or TV show hailed this as having an amazing single player campaign. When I sat down to play it I found it to be a boring rehash of the last game. There were many problems with the game that normally would make their way into reviews but these were strangely absent. Clipping and other graphic glitches, horrendous story, repetitiveness, and probably the worst end level I have ever seen. I swear there was some sort of massive pay off made somewhere to game reviewers.
I wish I could elaborate more on what was wrong with Halo2 but it's been awhile since it came out. I can't be the only one to think the single player was poo though.
Sometimes things like this make me question my own sanity. Any possible disaster could happen and I would be happy about it so long as it involved either advanced space fighter ships, alien invasion, or both. Come on I'm not alone here. Who else secretly wishes these really turn out to be a bunch of alien microbes even if they end up wiping out our entire planet?
Technology doesn't just die like these sensationalistic articles tend to believe. It slowly loses momentum over several years. VHS is still widely used for Christ sake.
DVD is still in it's prime. Players are cheap and people are buying disks like crazy. It seems way early to start shoving a new standard down consumers throats.
Another thing is that consumers get comfortable with a technology and tend to stick with it for as long as possible. For Christmas I bought my dad a new DVD player. I set it up and showed him how to use it the best I could. He calls me up the next day completely confused and jokingly says "You might as well have brought me a fucking space ship".
So I guess the moral of the story is that it is not time to give the average Joe another fucking space ship to figure out.
Looks like the great cookie scare is back. So what they lied about cookies. COOKIES people. Unless you're Doubleclick with the ability to track users over thousands of sites you're not able to do much.
Dell has really been pushing their XPS gaming machine brand lately. Could this just be a marketing gimmick?
1. Build the most ultimate uber neeto cool computer that all of use geeks will talk about. 2. People see XPS as the most advanced gaming machines. 3. Everyone buys the normal priced systems instead of the one with 3489 video cards. 4. PROFIT!
You could use one of those uber powerful laser pointers that can pop balloons and melt plastic. But for the price of $200-$1000 you should just use a hammer.
They did the same thing to case windows, neon lights, and everything else. Now it's hard to buy a case without a damn window. This pre-modded hard drive is just makes modders go out and try out more wild and crazy stunts.
Case modding is all about being cool and different. Wasting money on things like this gives these guys a bigger e-penis. One practical purpose I can think of is for education. Letting students watch the drive work as it chugs along reading and writing data.
I'm surprised something like this has never been built before purely for educational purposes. I can see someone making a good amount of money selling a hard drive like this for 5 times the price to schools. Hell I'd like to have one of these myself (for a few bucks more) since I've never had a hard drive I was willing to gut and even then I wouldn't get to see it work.
I admit my science knowledge is somewhat lacking but what effects would a huge magnetic field have on the human body? Or would they be able to create some sort of shielding?
You are absolutely right. EVERY tech news article I read by a non-geek news source is usually messed up. Awhile ago my local news channel mentioned some huge sum of money that the record industry loses from piracy. It was clearly propaganda from the RIAA. The news is only good for a rough idea of what's going on.
I don't see why everyone was eating up that GooglePC story. The article posted on Slashdot clearly said it was only a rumor. They are an internet company. It will be a long time until we see them selling consumer electronics.
How come Apple didn't secure some sort of copyright on using a lower case "i" on technology products? To a normal person these sound like they are made by Apple.
What is preventing a console or even a computer manufacturer from including water cooling themselves? Is there not a way to cheaply and safely mass produce it?
This Slashdot summery makes it sound like this is a sure thing. It is only a rumor at this point. Here is a quote from the article
"Here are some predictions for the media industry for 2006, based on interviews with industry analysts, executives and investors, along with a little intuition."
Yup there it is, the classic video game gimmic. Instead of improving the game lets add more characters! On paper it seems new and fresh but rarely does anything but change gameplay mechanics that were good to start with.
My worst memory of this was MDK2. The first one was (and still is) a fantastic game. Number 2 forced you to play these tedious puzzle solving levels with the scientist, and then somewhat more fun levels playing as a gun toating dog. I came in wanting to play a MDK game but got something totally different.
There is a very cleaver joke in this headline. Lets see if you can spot it.
...... You see bombs sometimes have wicks that "spark" when lit. Get it now? HAHA! So funny! Really!
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As much as I love reading actual paper, I find books awkward to hold. They never seem to stay open enough so I must struggle to keep them from closing. Is there some secret trick I'm missing on breaking books in so they're comfortable? A device like this that doesn't blast light into my eyes could be a great alternative.
Any word on how much work they put into protecting it from running home-brew software? I'm sure there are a million uses for electronic paper but only if we're allowed to do what we want with it.
And really I don't see what the problem is. With PSP their money comes from selling software. But with this reader most of the money will probably come from the hardware.
Foreigners really, I mean REALLY love doing over the phone support. Us IT workers have absolutely nothing to worry about.
I haven't read the article but here is an pretty accurate prediction
Bill: I think the new Xbox is neet.
There I just saved you all the trouble of reading.
If I may be off-topic for a moment, I'm looking for another cheap MP3 player in the $40 range. I would rather spend that every couple years than $400 every couple years. Load up a 256mb SD card with music or internet radio shows and I'm perfectly happy. Anyone have some suggestions?
I think what we'll be seeing is hard-drive/flash hybrids. Flash to store the OS on for quick energy conserving access and the hard drive for everything else. Flash just isn't ready to handle large amounts of data and it has a limited ammount of writes before it goes bad.
Am I the only one who felt blatantly lied to about this game? Every video game publication or TV show hailed this as having an amazing single player campaign. When I sat down to play it I found it to be a boring rehash of the last game. There were many problems with the game that normally would make their way into reviews but these were strangely absent. Clipping and other graphic glitches, horrendous story, repetitiveness, and probably the worst end level I have ever seen. I swear there was some sort of massive pay off made somewhere to game reviewers.
I wish I could elaborate more on what was wrong with Halo2 but it's been awhile since it came out. I can't be the only one to think the single player was poo though.
Sometimes things like this make me question my own sanity. Any possible disaster could happen and I would be happy about it so long as it involved either advanced space fighter ships, alien invasion, or both. Come on I'm not alone here. Who else secretly wishes these really turn out to be a bunch of alien microbes even if they end up wiping out our entire planet?
Technology doesn't just die like these sensationalistic articles tend to believe. It slowly loses momentum over several years. VHS is still widely used for Christ sake. DVD is still in it's prime. Players are cheap and people are buying disks like crazy. It seems way early to start shoving a new standard down consumers throats. Another thing is that consumers get comfortable with a technology and tend to stick with it for as long as possible. For Christmas I bought my dad a new DVD player. I set it up and showed him how to use it the best I could. He calls me up the next day completely confused and jokingly says "You might as well have brought me a fucking space ship". So I guess the moral of the story is that it is not time to give the average Joe another fucking space ship to figure out.
Looks like the great cookie scare is back. So what they lied about cookies. COOKIES people. Unless you're Doubleclick with the ability to track users over thousands of sites you're not able to do much.
As long as they don't put out "Vista: The Soundtrack". That would rip a hole in space time... or something equally not good.
Dell has really been pushing their XPS gaming machine brand lately. Could this just be a marketing gimmick?
1. Build the most ultimate uber neeto cool computer that all of use geeks will talk about.
2. People see XPS as the most advanced gaming machines.
3. Everyone buys the normal priced systems instead of the one with 3489 video cards.
4. PROFIT!
You could use one of those uber powerful laser pointers that can pop balloons and melt plastic. But for the price of $200-$1000 you should just use a hammer.
They did the same thing to case windows, neon lights, and everything else. Now it's hard to buy a case without a damn window. This pre-modded hard drive is just makes modders go out and try out more wild and crazy stunts.
Case modding is all about being cool and different. Wasting money on things like this gives these guys a bigger e-penis. One practical purpose I can think of is for education. Letting students watch the drive work as it chugs along reading and writing data.
I'm surprised something like this has never been built before purely for educational purposes. I can see someone making a good amount of money selling a hard drive like this for 5 times the price to schools. Hell I'd like to have one of these myself (for a few bucks more) since I've never had a hard drive I was willing to gut and even then I wouldn't get to see it work.
I admit my science knowledge is somewhat lacking but what effects would a huge magnetic field have on the human body? Or would they be able to create some sort of shielding?
You are absolutely right. EVERY tech news article I read by a non-geek news source is usually messed up. Awhile ago my local news channel mentioned some huge sum of money that the record industry loses from piracy. It was clearly propaganda from the RIAA. The news is only good for a rough idea of what's going on.
I don't see why everyone was eating up that GooglePC story. The article posted on Slashdot clearly said it was only a rumor. They are an internet company. It will be a long time until we see them selling consumer electronics.
How come Apple didn't secure some sort of copyright on using a lower case "i" on technology products? To a normal person these sound like they are made by Apple.
What is preventing a console or even a computer manufacturer from including water cooling themselves? Is there not a way to cheaply and safely mass produce it?
Umm I have to ask. What is a washing powder? *ducks*
This Slashdot summery makes it sound like this is a sure thing. It is only a rumor at this point. Here is a quote from the article
"Here are some predictions for the media industry for 2006, based on interviews with industry analysts, executives and investors, along with a little intuition."
Yup there it is, the classic video game gimmic. Instead of improving the game lets add more characters! On paper it seems new and fresh but rarely does anything but change gameplay mechanics that were good to start with. My worst memory of this was MDK2. The first one was (and still is) a fantastic game. Number 2 forced you to play these tedious puzzle solving levels with the scientist, and then somewhat more fun levels playing as a gun toating dog. I came in wanting to play a MDK game but got something totally different.
There is a very cleaver joke in this headline. Lets see if you can spot it. . .. ... You see bombs sometimes have wicks that "spark" when lit. Get it now? HAHA! So funny! Really!