These killjoys are offering us a stinking recipe... a free recipe not free beer. Bait and switch.
As for beta testing, home brewing involves substantial waits - like 4-6 weeks - before your beta testing begins. You spend your money on the materials, then taste to see if you like the recipe.
This is like putting a dress pattern on the Internet and declaring "free clothing!"
More outrage at
http://beeryblog.blogspot.com/2005/07/free-beer-in deed.html
The hype machhine is phenomenal, but this is more than hype, this is a step towards the "digital living room."
There is a race on to get to the "digital living room" first - a little company called Microsoft is also involved - and it's fascinating to watch the real developments (new products) and the "hype" (news releases about potential products).
Apple is winning the race, BTW. The hype is intended to rattle the competition as well as excite the faithful.
One way to enjoy the Apple hype is to watch MS and other competitors react to it.
- drotobuso
http://icold.blogspot.com/
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This BBC story seems to be a fresh rewrite of this old National Geographic piece: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/06/06 10_050610_robot.html ... which was blogged here in mid-month:
http://icold.blogspot.com/2005_07_01_icold_archive .html
The news event unfortunately did not make it to the robot expo's event site here:
http://www-1.expo2005.or.jp/en/robot/robot_project _00.html
If you search on co-creator "Hiroshi Ishiguru" you get little more than this story, however.
They're selling a product/service they don't have. Can you imagine someone doing such a thing? - DR http://icold.blogspot.com/
These killjoys are offering us a stinking recipe ... a free recipe not free beer. Bait and switch.
As for beta testing, home brewing involves substantial waits - like 4-6 weeks - before your beta testing begins. You spend your money on the materials, then taste to see if you like the recipe.
This is like putting a dress pattern on the Internet and declaring "free clothing!"
More outrage at
http://beeryblog.blogspot.com/2005/07/free-beer-in deed.html
I don't think it is awesome. It seems toylike compared to the android built in Japan and premiered earlier this month: http://icold.blogspot.com/2005/07/new-robot-approa ches-android-quality.html
- DR
The hype machhine is phenomenal, but this is more than hype, this is a step towards the "digital living room." There is a race on to get to the "digital living room" first - a little company called Microsoft is also involved - and it's fascinating to watch the real developments (new products) and the "hype" (news releases about potential products). Apple is winning the race, BTW. The hype is intended to rattle the competition as well as excite the faithful. One way to enjoy the Apple hype is to watch MS and other competitors react to it. - drotobuso http://icold.blogspot.com/