check out the reviews including http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR2yfhBSvR0 showing poor performance (load times: 1 min for slashdot, 1.5 mins for digg, 2 mins for sites with graphics, 3 mins for CNN).
>I have to wonder why they didn't just port Firefox themselves. It would be much easier
no it wouldn't. Opera have shedloads of experience making browers for low-spec devices with restricted interfaces. Firefox has none at all. Nintendo might as well have started entirely from scratch.
or are they implying everyone will have to buy after July? non-free updates?
I'm getting the Wii but not interested in browsing anyway. the DS browser seemed like a nice idea and was well implemented except for the appalling performance so I didn't bother.
>iPods, but 'podcasting' really has nothing to do with iPods at all
that's not entirely true. they existed before ipods, but it was the popularity of the ipod and Apple pushing them with iTunes and marketing that made them mainstream. they are names after ipods because the ipod is the most popular portable audio(/video) player. there is clearly a very strong contextual link and so Apple can and must defend their trademark. that's the law.
that's your (or their) opinion. "subscribed content" or "subscription" tell you nothing about the form of the content or the delivery mechanism. and "stream" implies delivered on demand which is a completely different thing altogether.
so instead of reading that Ricky Gervais has a new podcast, I now have to read that Ricky Gervais has new audio content available by subscription to a RSS feed on the internet.
nice one. Shakespeare would be proud of your concern for the lexicon, not being one to ever coin new words was he?
yeah but the port is irrelevant, the point is the difference between manually checking websites, or having them automatically delivered. when I said http I was using it as a shorthand for typing addresses into a location bar.
it's also important to me to separate the files in my media browser. they need a name and a heading so that I can specify rules for automatic checking, downloading, syncing, bookmarking and deleting. they are sufficiently different from audiobooks that I need a different section, and I don't understand why so many people seem to be personally offended that someone came up with the name "podcast" instead of just "subscribed content" or something.
no, when I said I didn't get them I mean I didn't have a clue what you were saying and had to infer your meaning from context. never heard of ace, priceline. and while I have heard of kleenex and band-aid I never use them and neither does anyone I know. a better example (for UK) is hoover for vacuum cleaner.
also, as I discussed in another comment, spam is taken from a completely different context and hence has no ramifications for trademark enforcement.
the personal computer one is lame, and with the google one 99.999% of the time people do actually mean google and not just "search" so there's no case for trademark dilution there.
the first time I was excited about rumble was N64 Goldeneye. in that game it was absolutely essential to the immersion (combined with the gun-like controller and relative newness of the technology). after a while I got used to it and only noticed when it *wasn't* there because the game felt so flat.
on the other hand, with the GameCube I don't care much about the rumble. on SSB, for example, I have it turned off because it just doesn't add anything.
I expect rumble to be important for the Wii though since there's a much stronger push for immersion.
you can only make your argument if you also contend that the term "website" is "total bullshit PR fluff" since it's clearly just something that you "download" (using http and DNS instead of RSS).
I, on the other hand, take the position that it is okay to introduce a new word for a technology that makes a significant improvement to usability and/or productivity.
and I never got the whole "I too stupid to understand what a podcast is" mentality.
why can't you guys see that "audio file + rss feed + support for chapter art and hyperlinks" is a combination that makes use easier in the same way that http made it easier than to manually ftp all the files on a website, and now rss makes it easier than http to check for changes?
I hate many of Sony's policies but that interface looks very nice. has absolutely nothing to do with console games of course, but reminds me of Apple in terms of slickness. it's like a combination of quartz + front row + expose and is good enough that I will be very happy if iTV had a little last-minute "inspiration" from it.
>But I can't see where this strategy has been hugely successful. Possibly with the XBox
if a 4+ billion dollar loss, tying for 2nd place in marketshare, and hoping to see a profit in the 10th year of running counts as a "huge success", then I don't know what would count as a failure? overheating power bricks actually killing users?
with computers you can handle any source your CPU is up to and can always click full screen.
and you have source options; ever watched a trailer from Apple? you get the choice of small, medium, large and HD res.
with TVs it's either HD or not. and HD versions are often completely different channels. it's lame, just like those "+1 hour channels" are lame - if you had decent scaling/shifting abilities in the first place you could do 10x as much 10x as easily.
you wait 40 years to upgrade and a week later you're obsolete.
what I hate about TV is how the specs are so hardware-dependent. all kinds of numbers and letters and if it differs by 1 character your thousands of dollars might have been wasted.
imo it should be more like computers: you basically have a processor that determines your data processing and a display device that determines your viewable resolution. almost everything else is software and thus improvements are continuous and ongoing. it's a much better model than upgrading every couple of decades, with a half-decade period when your TV is too good for the signal.
once TV is based on more internet-like digital technologies this will hopefully happen.
I use my 8MP camera. it even has a document mode. and it takes less time to photo and upload than just for a scanner to warm up.
I can't see why anyone would buy a scanner any more unless it was a multi-thousand dollar model with all kinds of fancy auto-feed duplex-scan with built-in OCR and photocopy functions.
Slashdot Mirror
check out the reviews including http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR2yfhBSvR0 showing poor performance (load times: 1 min for slashdot, 1.5 mins for digg, 2 mins for sites with graphics, 3 mins for CNN).
>I have to wonder why they didn't just port Firefox themselves. It would be much easier
no it wouldn't. Opera have shedloads of experience making browers for low-spec devices with restricted interfaces. Firefox has none at all. Nintendo might as well have started entirely from scratch.
http://www.apple.com/macmini/
or are they implying everyone will have to buy after July? non-free updates?
I'm getting the Wii but not interested in browsing anyway. the DS browser seemed like a nice idea and was well implemented except for the appalling performance so I didn't bother.
>iPods, but 'podcasting' really has nothing to do with iPods at all
that's not entirely true. they existed before ipods, but it was the popularity of the ipod and Apple pushing them with iTunes and marketing that made them mainstream. they are names after ipods because the ipod is the most popular portable audio(/video) player. there is clearly a very strong contextual link and so Apple can and must defend their trademark. that's the law.
>It pollutes the lexicon.
that's your (or their) opinion. "subscribed content" or "subscription" tell you nothing about the form of the content or the delivery mechanism. and "stream" implies delivered on demand which is a completely different thing altogether.
so instead of reading that Ricky Gervais has a new podcast, I now have to read that Ricky Gervais has new audio content available by subscription to a RSS feed on the internet.
nice one. Shakespeare would be proud of your concern for the lexicon, not being one to ever coin new words was he?
yeah but the port is irrelevant, the point is the difference between manually checking websites, or having them automatically delivered. when I said http I was using it as a shorthand for typing addresses into a location bar.
it's also important to me to separate the files in my media browser. they need a name and a heading so that I can specify rules for automatic checking, downloading, syncing, bookmarking and deleting. they are sufficiently different from audiobooks that I need a different section, and I don't understand why so many people seem to be personally offended that someone came up with the name "podcast" instead of just "subscribed content" or something.
no, when I said I didn't get them I mean I didn't have a clue what you were saying and had to infer your meaning from context. never heard of ace, priceline. and while I have heard of kleenex and band-aid I never use them and neither does anyone I know. a better example (for UK) is hoover for vacuum cleaner.
also, as I discussed in another comment, spam is taken from a completely different context and hence has no ramifications for trademark enforcement.
the personal computer one is lame, and with the google one 99.999% of the time people do actually mean google and not just "search" so there's no case for trademark dilution there.
yes, but the trademarked spam is a food product vs. the generic spam is unsolicted commercial email.
Apple's trademark pertains to a digital audio/video product vs. podcast which is a digital audio/video product. oops.
see the difference? trademark is ALL about context.
the first time I was excited about rumble was N64 Goldeneye. in that game it was absolutely essential to the immersion (combined with the gun-like controller and relative newness of the technology). after a while I got used to it and only noticed when it *wasn't* there because the game felt so flat.
on the other hand, with the GameCube I don't care much about the rumble. on SSB, for example, I have it turned off because it just doesn't add anything.
I expect rumble to be important for the Wii though since there's a much stronger push for immersion.
you can only make your argument if you also contend that the term "website" is "total bullshit PR fluff" since it's clearly just something that you "download" (using http and DNS instead of RSS).
I, on the other hand, take the position that it is okay to introduce a new word for a technology that makes a significant improvement to usability and/or productivity.
I swear to god I didn't get half the things you're talking about.
ace? priceline? e-mail? spam? are these supposed to be trademarks that have become generic? was glass supposed to be one (you said it enough times)?
and I never got the whole "I too stupid to understand what a podcast is" mentality.
why can't you guys see that "audio file + rss feed + support for chapter art and hyperlinks" is a combination that makes use easier in the same way that http made it easier than to manually ftp all the files on a website, and now rss makes it easier than http to check for changes?
I hate many of Sony's policies but that interface looks very nice. has absolutely nothing to do with console games of course, but reminds me of Apple in terms of slickness. it's like a combination of quartz + front row + expose and is good enough that I will be very happy if iTV had a little last-minute "inspiration" from it.
apparently they mirrored the film titanic. most* of the budget was spent CGIing the signs to look right.
hopefully this ends the comparison of twilight princess and titanic.
*dramatisation. may not be true.
>But I can't see where this strategy has been hugely successful. Possibly with the XBox
if a 4+ billion dollar loss, tying for 2nd place in marketshare, and hoping to see a profit in the 10th year of running counts as a "huge success", then I don't know what would count as a failure? overheating power bricks actually killing users?
and everyone pays for a more expensive RFID-capable CD/DVD player because...?
>I was backed up by an actual Catholic Priest who indicated that...
"actual" Catholic Priest?
no thanks, I prefer to receive God's words through a Genuine Roman Catholic(R) Priest XP Cathedral Edition Update(TM)
>Why would I want to have to take the time to ever so carefully position...
worst straw man ever.
why would I want an extra device to do this? taking up extra money, space, time, effort and not even being portable?
no, that's exactly how TV works.
with computers you can handle any source your CPU is up to and can always click full screen.
and you have source options; ever watched a trailer from Apple? you get the choice of small, medium, large and HD res.
with TVs it's either HD or not. and HD versions are often completely different channels. it's lame, just like those "+1 hour channels" are lame - if you had decent scaling/shifting abilities in the first place you could do 10x as much 10x as easily.
you wait 40 years to upgrade and a week later you're obsolete.
what I hate about TV is how the specs are so hardware-dependent. all kinds of numbers and letters and if it differs by 1 character your thousands of dollars might have been wasted.
imo it should be more like computers: you basically have a processor that determines your data processing and a display device that determines your viewable resolution. almost everything else is software and thus improvements are continuous and ongoing. it's a much better model than upgrading every couple of decades, with a half-decade period when your TV is too good for the signal.
once TV is based on more internet-like digital technologies this will hopefully happen.
scanners are dead.
I use my 8MP camera. it even has a document mode. and it takes less time to photo and upload than just for a scanner to warm up.
I can't see why anyone would buy a scanner any more unless it was a multi-thousand dollar model with all kinds of fancy auto-feed duplex-scan with built-in OCR and photocopy functions.
updated conclusion: home-use scanners are dead.
fixed a bug in your rant. happy to help.
genius, thanks.
I love it with Apple how frequently you wish you could do something then find out you can with just a couple of clicks.
I did. my point is that setting applies to the browser but not cover view.