So I know I'm probably just addding to the other people on here that have already vented that portable TV is a thing of the past, and that the screen is too small, and that there's nothing good on anyway, etc... but obviously the OEMs and Service Providers don't realize this yet... It used to be cool to be able to pick up that TV signal anywhere and watch TV, but not only is it old hat, but why would I want to do that on a Cell Phone of all things? Think about it:
I'm at home, I watch the HDTV in the living room.
I'm in the Home Office, I have a TV tuner (that rarely gets used, but that's beside the point)
I'm on the go, there are DVD players and TV tuners for in car stereos (which have much better sound and typically are like 7" screens)
I'm in the office, there's a TV in the break room (besides, I'm too busy to watch TV at work anyway or I wouldn't have a job)
Why do we need another one? Are people standing around waiting in lines for the train? Is that the only market? I used to surf the net on my phone waiting for my plane when I traveled, but it was usually only for a few minutes to get the news because the screen was too darn small. How many people ride the train/plane/bus to work? I assume it's a decent number, but compare that to the number of people that can afford a phone that enables them to watch TV and how many actualy care to watch TV in the first place and then see how many are in all categories... then realize that we're talking about a small percentage of people here and realize that Cell phone TV = "Nothing to see here, move along"
As handy as that would be... X-Box 360/PS3/Revolution Don't have tuners.
And when is Tivo going HD anyway? That's going to seperate it from the rest... Especially some of the new cable company DVRs that already have HD tuners in them. Honestly that's the main reason why my friends and I haven't picked up a Tivo and I think they're missing out on business that way.
Ever hear of 2 for $20? Best Buy runs that deal all the time, so I could OWN a movie WITH the DVD and case and all for 10 bucks. Heck, even newer more popular movies run $15 bucks tops (unless it's imported/anime and then you just have to look for sales)...
So lets see here. I pay 8-10 bucks to be able to download it. Then I have to also pay for the bandwidth used to download it (sure I pay monthly for cable, but if you only download movies and it costs $20-40 a month, you have to factor it in), then I have to buy some DVD-R/+R media, and if I want to make it fancy a case and atleast a new sharpie everyonce in a while... Not to mention the time spent... looks like a pretty crappy deal to me. I'll just drop 15 bucks and buy the movie and watch it whenever I feel, on which ever DVD player I feel like sticking it in.
7.) Yeah, Windows is 5 years behind. Except... gaming. Oh, and desktop usability (For the LOVE OF GOD, can someone create a universal clipboard for ANY linux windowing system? ALL I EVER WANTED was to cut and paste between apps). And hardware support. Also: Linux and Mac both defrag in the background, as does Windows XP and Server2003.
Um, I run XFCE4 & Enlightenment & KDE, and copy/paste between apps all the time. I have never noticed any issues on any of them... am I missing something?
Ok, so I don't think this really passes as news... but I'll throw in my $0.02 anyway.
Theoretically some new textures would be great, I mean, they upgrade the system, they upgrade the resolution, they upgrade the controllers, etc... But honestly, if they upped the textures in 1 & 2, they couldn't put "New Highres Textures" in version 3... (Unless they re-released 1 & 2 for the 360 and charged for the upgrades.) I mean, it doesn't really make sense for them, but it would be nice
But thinking about the effort it may take to do all that could be more than just swapping out some texture files with new ones. They may have to take advantage of specific 360 hardware to actually USE the larger textures and that may make it not worthwhile to them (again, I'm sure 3 will come out and no one will care about 1 & 2 anymore anyway). I mean, I've played FF-7 on my PC, that didn't change the textures or polygon count... but if someone went back and made really high res versions of Super Mario 3, yet kept the same game play, would people buy it? and even if they would, it wouldn't be the same game with its retro goodness.
(Random BBC Exec)Hm... slow day, time to surf Slashdot a bit... Hey the BBC shutdown blackberry support, that's funny-- Wait, I work for the BBC... What?? My blackberry E-mail is down!?! The IT Guys never told me that! Good thing I get my news from slashdot or I'd be sending e-mails all day on that blasted thing!
Hey, it could happen...
Viewsonic monitors used to be the cream of the crop back in the day... of course that was before anything larger than 17" was huge and before LCD panels were available outside of laptops. I have not stacked them up recently, since at this point my 10 year old 17" flat-screen Trinitron is still the best monitor I've seen in it's size (and I've seen A LOT of monitors) so I guess I don't really care much until that one starts to fritz.
I would have to say I agree with where you're coming from. I have been JML (some sites require a minimum 6 chars, so it's theJML) since I was like 10. Everyone knows me as that from as far back as I can remember and it's nice to know that. I can find my friends the same way, so why not them find me?
On the flip side you are a member in their arena, so you have to go by their rules and regulations and I know from running BBS's and websites, sometimes you have to draw the line somewhere as an admin. They chose the line and as a player in their world you have to follow it. If you don't like it, you can go play something else I suppose, afterall, you may think you have a name, but in a system that large, a name is really only a collection of characters following the [A-Z|a-z|0-9]* pattern.
Actually, I prefer the widescreens. I work on linux command lnes and editors a lot. It's definately nice to be able to see a directory listing, a php command, etc... without having to have it wrapped. Which also, therefore, takes up less heigt. For Linux people, this is a great idea...
Now I don't know if a 20" laptop is really a great idea... I already have trouble opening my 15.1" dell's screen on an airplanes.
Ok, just a simple question, I assume that it means 60k in California... 60k here in VA is a nice amount, especially for starting out! but 60k in Northern VA (near DC) or in Los Angeles, you're lucky to afford a decent apartment on that unless you drive a ways. I've priced it, it's not worth it. If you stick with a 30-40k job somewhere more reasonable, you'll end up with more in the long run.
Ok, I just RTFA'd and all I saw was "Ethernet". So, coming from a professional in the NAS/SAN world, Ethernet is not a standard for filesharing, or anything close to it, only for intercommunication... So do these use iSCSI? Windows File Sharing? NFS? How do the web interfaces stack up (I assume they're configured over a web interface, the pictures seemed to indicate that they were headless)? Can you run other things on the systems? Some said that they would share printers, how about USB drives? Backups? Can you attach a USB Tape drive and run periodic backups?
Definately an interesting article, but it needs more details for accurate comparison. Also, since some are around $400-$1200 I would like a comparison between these units and say an old Pentium I have lying around that runs linux (or windows for comparison) serving files.
But is there anything ON those 100+ Channels? I have 200+ Digital Cable Channels, out of that 2 have interesting programming at various points during the month.
Yeah, I mean, Al Gore Invented the internet. Surely his very first agenda after being elected would have been to force the government to run new fibre throughout the nation.
I don't know about anyone else but I'd much rather NOT have the government control my internet access anymore than they already try to.
Ok, so I just have one question, what's so bad about the Sims in his eyes? I mean, I'm not a huge fan, nor do I believe that shooting people in a video game equates to mass murder in real life (parents should be teaching their kids that it's JUST A GAME), however... What's the connection to the Sims? I mean, the Sims is no more a violent video game than Bubble Bobble or Tetris.
I agree... and what is a sick day? I hear people take them sometimes, but where I work, you need to prove you went to a doctor to be credited a sick day. So Unless I'm seeing a shrink, it's called vacation (which i don't get much of anyway).
I've also noticed that taking vacation doesn't help to rejuvinate me, it's simply there to make me realize how much I don't like going to work...
Wow I wish I could bring in an iPod, I'm so much more productive with music... Alas, my employer also bans such devices... so I am forced to listen to the drone of other people's phone calls, people passing buy, announcing receptionists, whistling coworkers, and the neverending supply of computer fans from the lab connected to my cubical (not to mention when one of them beeps incessently). I'm guessing these are just more signs of "Get Out" as the author put it.
I think ATI still believes that Linux is not a long-term viable gaming platform and therefore they are not coming out with linux drivers... Which is why I still run Nvidia cards on my linux boxes. They have the same unified driver base for linux as they do for windows and it just simply works. And since linux is what I use 95% of my time, I'm not buying ATI anytime soon.
A few years back Nokia ignored the flip phone trend and as such I can't even buy a Nokia from Cingular, the largest retailer of phones in North America.
Wow, I have a Nokia phone I got from Cingular. In fact, I've had nothing but Nokia Phones. I only got the one I have now because I finally broke the faceplate holding snap on my 6162 (yes, I got it in '97, and the same phone still works, I just didn't like the duct tape'd look anymore).
And I'm very glad they they've skipped over the "flip phone trend". I'm a strong believer that flip phones only have one positive, you can slam the phone closed to hangup on someone. Otherwise they break at the hinge, they age poorly, their batteries are usually shorter lived, they aren't very easy to use with one-hand, and generally not a good investment.
Perhaps they just want to put their money into things they think will worthwhile.
(I didn't mean to rant, I just think that many companies should put their money into worthwhile endevours instead of just throwing money at "the latest trend".)
I too have been using the 2.0 beta for quite a while now, probably close to 2-3 months now and it seems stable as a rock (well, I am runing it on linux...) and seems to deal with the rather complex, though not extremely huge xls spreadsheets and word docs I work with on a consistant basis. Hats off to the OO team!
At first I would agree, and said the same thing about my relational database class in college. It was the most dry, annoying, drawn out class (though maybe that was just my teacher), and the examples and "projects" were so unrelated to life as we know it that I found no reason, other than a grade, to be there.
That being said, I now use it on a daily basis runing mySQL scripts, building and putting info in databases, and building websites using php. And you know, it makes sense now, and it actually seems cool. Maybe you just need to have to reason to care. (though I suppose that's hard to give kids who are already convinced that they'll never use it...
My $0.02
Ok, I admit, when I first started using the gimp I had just come over from Photoshop, so it was a little wierd. The UI was, in short, different. But I've been using it more and more in recent times, and as I've gotten into it, I find it to be much more intuitive than Photoshop's interface. At least for me. I like the shortcuts, I like the right clicking menus, I like the multiple windows, etc... Everytime I go back to Photoshop (because I'm forced to, not because I want to) I find more reasons to like the gimp.
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So I know I'm probably just addding to the other people on here that have already vented that portable TV is a thing of the past, and that the screen is too small, and that there's nothing good on anyway, etc... but obviously the OEMs and Service Providers don't realize this yet... It used to be cool to be able to pick up that TV signal anywhere and watch TV, but not only is it old hat, but why would I want to do that on a Cell Phone of all things? Think about it:
I'm at home, I watch the HDTV in the living room.
I'm in the Home Office, I have a TV tuner (that rarely gets used, but that's beside the point)
I'm on the go, there are DVD players and TV tuners for in car stereos (which have much better sound and typically are like 7" screens)
I'm in the office, there's a TV in the break room (besides, I'm too busy to watch TV at work anyway or I wouldn't have a job)
Why do we need another one? Are people standing around waiting in lines for the train? Is that the only market? I used to surf the net on my phone waiting for my plane when I traveled, but it was usually only for a few minutes to get the news because the screen was too darn small. How many people ride the train/plane/bus to work? I assume it's a decent number, but compare that to the number of people that can afford a phone that enables them to watch TV and how many actualy care to watch TV in the first place and then see how many are in all categories... then realize that we're talking about a small percentage of people here and realize that Cell phone TV = "Nothing to see here, move along"
Just my $0.02 I guess.
As handy as that would be... X-Box 360/PS3/Revolution Don't have tuners.
And when is Tivo going HD anyway? That's going to seperate it from the rest... Especially some of the new cable company DVRs that already have HD tuners in them. Honestly that's the main reason why my friends and I haven't picked up a Tivo and I think they're missing out on business that way.
Ever hear of 2 for $20? Best Buy runs that deal all the time, so I could OWN a movie WITH the DVD and case and all for 10 bucks. Heck, even newer more popular movies run $15 bucks tops (unless it's imported/anime and then you just have to look for sales)...
So lets see here. I pay 8-10 bucks to be able to download it. Then I have to also pay for the bandwidth used to download it (sure I pay monthly for cable, but if you only download movies and it costs $20-40 a month, you have to factor it in), then I have to buy some DVD-R/+R media, and if I want to make it fancy a case and atleast a new sharpie everyonce in a while... Not to mention the time spent... looks like a pretty crappy deal to me. I'll just drop 15 bucks and buy the movie and watch it whenever I feel, on which ever DVD player I feel like sticking it in.
Atleast that's My $0.02.
Um, I run XFCE4 & Enlightenment & KDE, and copy/paste between apps all the time. I have never noticed any issues on any of them... am I missing something?
Yeah, let's all leave messages there... that poor server, yet another one down due to the slashdot effect.
Ok, so I don't think this really passes as news... but I'll throw in my $0.02 anyway.
Theoretically some new textures would be great, I mean, they upgrade the system, they upgrade the resolution, they upgrade the controllers, etc... But honestly, if they upped the textures in 1 & 2, they couldn't put "New Highres Textures" in version 3... (Unless they re-released 1 & 2 for the 360 and charged for the upgrades.) I mean, it doesn't really make sense for them, but it would be nice
But thinking about the effort it may take to do all that could be more than just swapping out some texture files with new ones. They may have to take advantage of specific 360 hardware to actually USE the larger textures and that may make it not worthwhile to them (again, I'm sure 3 will come out and no one will care about 1 & 2 anymore anyway). I mean, I've played FF-7 on my PC, that didn't change the textures or polygon count... but if someone went back and made really high res versions of Super Mario 3, yet kept the same game play, would people buy it? and even if they would, it wouldn't be the same game with its retro goodness.
(Random BBC Exec)Hm... slow day, time to surf Slashdot a bit... Hey the BBC shutdown blackberry support, that's funny-- Wait, I work for the BBC... What?? My blackberry E-mail is down!?! The IT Guys never told me that! Good thing I get my news from slashdot or I'd be sending e-mails all day on that blasted thing! Hey, it could happen...
Viewsonic monitors used to be the cream of the crop back in the day... of course that was before anything larger than 17" was huge and before LCD panels were available outside of laptops. I have not stacked them up recently, since at this point my 10 year old 17" flat-screen Trinitron is still the best monitor I've seen in it's size (and I've seen A LOT of monitors) so I guess I don't really care much until that one starts to fritz.
I would have to say I agree with where you're coming from. I have been JML (some sites require a minimum 6 chars, so it's theJML) since I was like 10. Everyone knows me as that from as far back as I can remember and it's nice to know that. I can find my friends the same way, so why not them find me?
On the flip side you are a member in their arena, so you have to go by their rules and regulations and I know from running BBS's and websites, sometimes you have to draw the line somewhere as an admin. They chose the line and as a player in their world you have to follow it. If you don't like it, you can go play something else I suppose, afterall, you may think you have a name, but in a system that large, a name is really only a collection of characters following the [A-Z|a-z|0-9]* pattern.
Actually, I prefer the widescreens. I work on linux command lnes and editors a lot. It's definately nice to be able to see a directory listing, a php command, etc... without having to have it wrapped. Which also, therefore, takes up less heigt. For Linux people, this is a great idea...
Now I don't know if a 20" laptop is really a great idea... I already have trouble opening my 15.1" dell's screen on an airplanes.
Ok, just a simple question, I assume that it means 60k in California... 60k here in VA is a nice amount, especially for starting out! but 60k in Northern VA (near DC) or in Los Angeles, you're lucky to afford a decent apartment on that unless you drive a ways. I've priced it, it's not worth it. If you stick with a 30-40k job somewhere more reasonable, you'll end up with more in the long run.
Ok, I just RTFA'd and all I saw was "Ethernet". So, coming from a professional in the NAS/SAN world, Ethernet is not a standard for filesharing, or anything close to it, only for intercommunication... So do these use iSCSI? Windows File Sharing? NFS? How do the web interfaces stack up (I assume they're configured over a web interface, the pictures seemed to indicate that they were headless)? Can you run other things on the systems? Some said that they would share printers, how about USB drives? Backups? Can you attach a USB Tape drive and run periodic backups?
Definately an interesting article, but it needs more details for accurate comparison. Also, since some are around $400-$1200 I would like a comparison between these units and say an old Pentium I have lying around that runs linux (or windows for comparison) serving files.
But is there anything ON those 100+ Channels? I have 200+ Digital Cable Channels, out of that 2 have interesting programming at various points during the month.
Quality not Quantity
Yeah, I mean, Al Gore Invented the internet. Surely his very first agenda after being elected would have been to force the government to run new fibre throughout the nation.
I don't know about anyone else but I'd much rather NOT have the government control my internet access anymore than they already try to.
Yeah, I mean, if we didn't have the FCC, who would fine TV stations for showing bare asses and hot cheerleaders during football games?
Ok, so I just have one question, what's so bad about the Sims in his eyes? I mean, I'm not a huge fan, nor do I believe that shooting people in a video game equates to mass murder in real life (parents should be teaching their kids that it's JUST A GAME), however... What's the connection to the Sims? I mean, the Sims is no more a violent video game than Bubble Bobble or Tetris.
Sweet! There are New Doctor Who Eps! I'd definately shell out a few bucks for those, especially if they're good quality!
I agree... and what is a sick day? I hear people take them sometimes, but where I work, you need to prove you went to a doctor to be credited a sick day. So Unless I'm seeing a shrink, it's called vacation (which i don't get much of anyway).
I've also noticed that taking vacation doesn't help to rejuvinate me, it's simply there to make me realize how much I don't like going to work...
Wow I wish I could bring in an iPod, I'm so much more productive with music... Alas, my employer also bans such devices... so I am forced to listen to the drone of other people's phone calls, people passing buy, announcing receptionists, whistling coworkers, and the neverending supply of computer fans from the lab connected to my cubical (not to mention when one of them beeps incessently). I'm guessing these are just more signs of "Get Out" as the author put it.
I think ATI still believes that Linux is not a long-term viable gaming platform and therefore they are not coming out with linux drivers... Which is why I still run Nvidia cards on my linux boxes. They have the same unified driver base for linux as they do for windows and it just simply works. And since linux is what I use 95% of my time, I'm not buying ATI anytime soon.
The system might hang under heavy load.
The system hangs on a disk full condition.
Aren't those kind of important to saying that something is stable?
And I'm very glad they they've skipped over the "flip phone trend". I'm a strong believer that flip phones only have one positive, you can slam the phone closed to hangup on someone. Otherwise they break at the hinge, they age poorly, their batteries are usually shorter lived, they aren't very easy to use with one-hand, and generally not a good investment.
Perhaps they just want to put their money into things they think will worthwhile.
(I didn't mean to rant, I just think that many companies should put their money into worthwhile endevours instead of just throwing money at "the latest trend".)
Just My $.02
Why silent computers?
I have a few linux boxes. I have a fianceé.
If the first one is loud, so is the second one...'nuff said.
I too have been using the 2.0 beta for quite a while now, probably close to 2-3 months now and it seems stable as a rock (well, I am runing it on linux...) and seems to deal with the rather complex, though not extremely huge xls spreadsheets and word docs I work with on a consistant basis. Hats off to the OO team!
At first I would agree, and said the same thing about my relational database class in college. It was the most dry, annoying, drawn out class (though maybe that was just my teacher), and the examples and "projects" were so unrelated to life as we know it that I found no reason, other than a grade, to be there.
That being said, I now use it on a daily basis runing mySQL scripts, building and putting info in databases, and building websites using php. And you know, it makes sense now, and it actually seems cool. Maybe you just need to have to reason to care. (though I suppose that's hard to give kids who are already convinced that they'll never use it... My $0.02
Ok, I admit, when I first started using the gimp I had just come over from Photoshop, so it was a little wierd. The UI was, in short, different. But I've been using it more and more in recent times, and as I've gotten into it, I find it to be much more intuitive than Photoshop's interface. At least for me. I like the shortcuts, I like the right clicking menus, I like the multiple windows, etc... Everytime I go back to Photoshop (because I'm forced to, not because I want to) I find more reasons to like the gimp.