And now, the more i use it for video, the less inclined i am to getting the new iPhone or a large capactity Touch. The video management features of the iPhone/Touch and iTunes are just awful. While decent of mp3, it just fails when a user has more than jsut a few videos. There's just not enough grouping/control of sorting. Why the hell do my tv episodes sort in REVERSE order and why can't i change that? Why don't my music videos group by Artist and THEN ALBUM (it now groups only by artist)? Why is there no manual method of organizing them? It's just so frustrating and i only have an 8GB iPhone. If i had a (say) 32GB 3G iPhone, i thnk i'd spend most of my time griping about the vidoe management!:) This is in addition to the traiditional complaints about the iPhone (No Flash, No MMS, no Cut and paste, etc).
Yes, i definitely agree about the big boxes and that started quite a while ago and is a problem for all industries (Starbucks,...).
But your point is well-taken: I don't really see so many record shops offering any value over just buying the cds. Do we need music expertise? Maybe, maybe not, but isn't one of the reasons that we frequent some of the niche record shops that we can ask questions and get some informed and pretty cool (sometiems) answers? There was a shop back home when i was in college that was crewed entirely of metal heads (for me it was a plus). They'd always recommend cool stuff and stuff I'd never even heard of before. If i wanted, they'd take a CD and play it on the store's speakers. We were on a firstname basis and that fostered so much goodwill that i'd never even go to Hastings or Best Buy.
These days people don't seem to ASK for service, but I still believe that in the end, they do want it and that person-to-person experience is one of the largest, strongest benefits that a brick-n-mortar has to offer.
I honestly believe that one of the reasons that there's so much support for FOSS is as a form of retaliation against Microsoft et al. If there wasn't such discontent against Microsoft and such general aboslute hatred of same, I think FOSS' momentum would not be quite the same. Sure, i think FOSS/Open Source would still be quite viable and alive, but this hatred motivation is quite strong and i believe it to be much stronger than the altruism factor.
Is it for a fully deployed and maintained MMO game? Or is it just for the developed software? There's a huge difference (though neither seems reasonable for the $3M number). BUT, I can perhaps imagine a software company willing to take on the project if NASA were to take on the task and costs of hosting and maintaining the app.
If you like quality in your meats, you will seek out a good butcher b/c there IS a difference. Plus, meat is not just meat. If you look at the marbling of the fat in a piece of meat, you can tell; and there are all those hormones and (in the case of pork) saline injected food. A good butcher gives you quality and service and expert (ideally) knowledge.
Now having said that, it's true that convenience and cost have higher importance to most consumers; but there are still some good butchers around and have very loyal customer bases.
i'd think that record shop owners would be in a similar situation. For instance, i would LOVE to have a local record shop that carried European metal like Luca Turilli or Nightwish. And there may be other clever ways of leveraging knowledge of expertise as well as the benefits of having a brick and mortar place to entice clients. But, yes, i will agree that it is a VERY dangerous time for record shop owners and that most will vanish in the next few years (but didn't that trend already start many years ago with the Big Boxes?)
It may soon come to the point where we have to pay for some of the free services we enjoy now. Although, maybe that's not so bad, esp. if the fees are low. For instance, if gmail were to cost $1 for a lifetime use, it might not be so bad...
I know alot of people don't want to pay and many others can't really pay (teens, people without cc's, etc) and it would perhaps get prohibitive depending on how many services/sites you are registered in.
Serves a dual purpose then. It also automatically filters out people. If you are too stupid to figure out this CAPTCHA then you are too stupid to have a GMail acct.
... beginning college students typically don't know what constitutes "good research". And they tend to be very trusting, not just of Wikipedia, but of anything on the Internet.
A few years ago I had a student turn in a paper arguing that the drinking age should be lowered to 18. One of the claims the paper raised was that drinking ages are lower in many European countries, and that they have healthier drinking cultures. That's probably true, but the source that the student cited to back up the point was totally inadequate. It was a two paragraph account of German drinking habits. The account was based on an interview with an unnamed exchange student. It was written down by an anonymous high school student. And it was put up on the web as a really badly designed web page. Let's see - anonymous author, anonymous interview subject, obviously done as part of a high school assignment, very short, no details, and badly presented. Not exactly the world's most credible source.
Two bee fare, he could of thought that it was a form of "To let loose" and had come into parlance in the US vernacular. It wouldn't be the first time that we've mangled languish!
Ok, so where can i buy these Blue jeans cables? I'll buy a dozen of them and hand them out with copies of this letter just to stick it to Monster. Man, Monster's products have always sucked balls; i didn't realize they as a company sucked balls, too.
But another question is - Why redo that book again? Let us see some other of the well-known authors filmed. Asimov's "Nightfall", Gordon Dickson's "Way of the Pilgrim", Frederick Pohl's "Gateway", Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land" (which gave us the word "Grok") or "Citizen of the Galaxy", Keith Laumer's "Galactic Odyssey", Jack Vance's "The Demon Princes", Alfred Bester's "The Stars My Destination", Jack McDevitt's "A Talent for War", Brian Aldiss epic "Helliconia", Christopher Anvil's "Pandora's Planet", Steven Gould's "Helm", Alfred Elton van Vogt's "The Empire of Isher".
There are also books that are better suited for TV series of course. Gordon Dickson's Dorsai books and the many Sector General stories from James White.
And there are books/authors that has produced enough material to allow creation of an epic series that sure could take on Star Wars (but sure be very different) like Iain M Banks Culture novels, the "Hope" series of David Feintuch, Asimov's foundation books, Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game" and following books.
NIGHTFALL was made.
STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND was in pre-production but went into turnaround.
ENDER'S GAME is in development Hell.
Dan Simmons' HYPERION is apparently beginning the process of being made.
would Depleted Uranium really make a good sword? Yes, it would certainly be dense and thus heavy, but would it actually keep an edge well? Would it be strong and yet not brittle? not rhetoric, i really am asking...
They mention multi-touch, which i think has the greatest chance at present , of integrating into our current browsing experience, as well as the Wiimote, something that sounds like MS Surface. Much of it is dedicated to PicLens. It doesn't really say that any one of these technologies IS the next UI, but it says that we're at the point where computational power as well as the expectations of the user base is reaching the point where we can make a new jump forward. I'd add in that material science has come to the point where we can have such things like touch-screens, multi-touch displays, multi-touch trackpads (as in the new Macbook Air).
Doesn't mention that there have been numerous false starts. Remember that wave of VR stuff? Quicktime V/R was one, but the idea of navigating in 3D was thought to be the next step.
They all closed here years ago. I think Playstation was blamed at the time, though many probably closed earlier and blamed the Genesis.
Man, when are people going to stop blaming the Bible for everything?
The Best shows in the past 5-10 years have NOT been on (or created by) Network Tv. HBO had taken the lead in good storytelling in television, pioneered with SOPRANOS but continuing to such shows as DEADWOOD, CARNIVALE, THE WIRE, ROME. As of late, HBO has lost much of that edge as their flagship shows have ended or been cancelled (ROME, *sigh*) and now Showtime is coming on strong with DEXTER and BROTHERHOOD (SLEEPER CELL, DEAD LIKE ME in the past).
And now AMC has MAD MEN and BREAKING BAD which are both substantially better than anything on network tv.
FX has THE SHIELD and now SUNNY IN PHILLY.
THE OFFICE almost doesn't count as an NBC product since Ricky Gervais is basically remaking the UK version.
BSG is sci fi.
FIREFLY was cancelled prematurely, as were excellent shows FREAKS AND GEEKS and WONDERFALLS. This seems par for the course: Shows are too good for tv; i think if FREAKS AND GEEKS were on HBO, they would've gotten a second season or so...
I'm not a fan of LOST or HEROES or 24 or CSI:foo, personally, but those are rare wins for Network tv. But what are the Biggest Name shows on network tv? AMERICAN IDOL, SURVIVOR... meh. Of those ilk, I again, prefer the cable offerings: ICE ROAD TRUCKERS, DEADLIEST CATCH.
This past season on network tv, I watched THE OFFICE, REAPER, CHUCK, and PUSHING DAISIES. oh and a guilty pleasure: BIG BANG THEORY.
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The video quality is excellent and i do like (for the most part) the UI. Still, unless there's some 3G killer app (Slingbox client?) i'll likely hold off on the iPhone 3G; perhaps I'll get one of those Creative Zens instead just for video. http://us.creative.com/products/product.asp?category=213&subcategory=214&product=16999
But your point is well-taken: I don't really see so many record shops offering any value over just buying the cds. Do we need music expertise? Maybe, maybe not, but isn't one of the reasons that we frequent some of the niche record shops that we can ask questions and get some informed and pretty cool (sometiems) answers? There was a shop back home when i was in college that was crewed entirely of metal heads (for me it was a plus). They'd always recommend cool stuff and stuff I'd never even heard of before. If i wanted, they'd take a CD and play it on the store's speakers. We were on a firstname basis and that fostered so much goodwill that i'd never even go to Hastings or Best Buy.
These days people don't seem to ASK for service, but I still believe that in the end, they do want it and that person-to-person experience is one of the largest, strongest benefits that a brick-n-mortar has to offer.
I honestly believe that one of the reasons that there's so much support for FOSS is as a form of retaliation against Microsoft et al. If there wasn't such discontent against Microsoft and such general aboslute hatred of same, I think FOSS' momentum would not be quite the same. Sure, i think FOSS/Open Source would still be quite viable and alive, but this hatred motivation is quite strong and i believe it to be much stronger than the altruism factor.
Is it for a fully deployed and maintained MMO game? Or is it just for the developed software? There's a huge difference (though neither seems reasonable for the $3M number). BUT, I can perhaps imagine a software company willing to take on the project if NASA were to take on the task and costs of hosting and maintaining the app.
Now having said that, it's true that convenience and cost have higher importance to most consumers; but there are still some good butchers around and have very loyal customer bases.
i'd think that record shop owners would be in a similar situation. For instance, i would LOVE to have a local record shop that carried European metal like Luca Turilli or Nightwish. And there may be other clever ways of leveraging knowledge of expertise as well as the benefits of having a brick and mortar place to entice clients. But, yes, i will agree that it is a VERY dangerous time for record shop owners and that most will vanish in the next few years (but didn't that trend already start many years ago with the Big Boxes?)
I know alot of people don't want to pay and many others can't really pay (teens, people without cc's, etc) and it would perhaps get prohibitive depending on how many services/sites you are registered in.
Serves a dual purpose then. It also automatically filters out people. If you are too stupid to figure out this CAPTCHA then you are too stupid to have a GMail acct.
as being Rick Rolled?
... beginning college students typically don't know what constitutes "good research". And they tend to be very trusting, not just of Wikipedia, but of anything on the Internet. A few years ago I had a student turn in a paper arguing that the drinking age should be lowered to 18. One of the claims the paper raised was that drinking ages are lower in many European countries, and that they have healthier drinking cultures. That's probably true, but the source that the student cited to back up the point was totally inadequate. It was a two paragraph account of German drinking habits. The account was based on an interview with an unnamed exchange student. It was written down by an anonymous high school student. And it was put up on the web as a really badly designed web page. Let's see - anonymous author, anonymous interview subject, obviously done as part of a high school assignment, very short, no details, and badly presented. Not exactly the world's most credible source.Sounds like a journalist in the making!
:)
-goro-
We'll never have a war on stupidity as long as that war would immediately cause us (the US) to attack our President.
Ok, so where can i buy these Blue jeans cables? I'll buy a dozen of them and hand them out with copies of this letter just to stick it to Monster. Man, Monster's products have always sucked balls; i didn't realize they as a company sucked balls, too.
In further news, Microsoft Word is now being adopted as the standard wordprocessor.
Although curiously this has not been true of bottling the nearly equally ubiquitous water. -goro-
http://www.japander.com/japander/vandamme.htm
There are also books that are better suited for TV series of course. Gordon Dickson's Dorsai books and the many Sector General stories from James White.
And there are books/authors that has produced enough material to allow creation of an epic series that sure could take on Star Wars (but sure be very different) like Iain M Banks Culture novels, the "Hope" series of David Feintuch, Asimov's foundation books, Orson Scott Card's "Ender's Game" and following books.
NIGHTFALL was made.STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND was in pre-production but went into turnaround.
ENDER'S GAME is in development Hell.
Dan Simmons' HYPERION is apparently beginning the process of being made.
Why is it when i select the Don't Ask Me Again button on the dialog, that it NEVER WORKS? (Unless i agree to install whatever...)
0. Adobe FLASH support
under "actually possible/likely" :
Cut & Paste
Multiple delete emails
EMPTY delete emails button (why do i have to delete every email twice?)
MMS
SMS Turn off autocorrect option
I wonder if this is a side-effect of Dell buying Alienware.
would Depleted Uranium really make a good sword? Yes, it would certainly be dense and thus heavy, but would it actually keep an edge well? Would it be strong and yet not brittle? not rhetoric, i really am asking...
They mention multi-touch, which i think has the greatest chance at present , of integrating into our current browsing experience, as well as the Wiimote, something that sounds like MS Surface. Much of it is dedicated to PicLens. It doesn't really say that any one of these technologies IS the next UI, but it says that we're at the point where computational power as well as the expectations of the user base is reaching the point where we can make a new jump forward. I'd add in that material science has come to the point where we can have such things like touch-screens, multi-touch displays, multi-touch trackpads (as in the new Macbook Air).
Doesn't mention that there have been numerous false starts. Remember that wave of VR stuff? Quicktime V/R was one, but the idea of navigating in 3D was thought to be the next step.
Should be interesting at the very least...
*drop* *splash* *weep*
"Oh, here comes Tibor the Hun, freeing up the bathroom, finally!"
You know they changed the name of "Uranus" just to stop these kinds of jokes.
It's now "Urectum"
($1 to FUTURAMA)
They all closed here years ago. I think Playstation was blamed at the time, though many probably closed earlier and blamed the Genesis. Man, when are people going to stop blaming the Bible for everything?
The Best shows in the past 5-10 years have NOT been on (or created by) Network Tv. HBO had taken the lead in good storytelling in television, pioneered with SOPRANOS but continuing to such shows as DEADWOOD, CARNIVALE, THE WIRE, ROME. As of late, HBO has lost much of that edge as their flagship shows have ended or been cancelled (ROME, *sigh*) and now Showtime is coming on strong with DEXTER and BROTHERHOOD (SLEEPER CELL, DEAD LIKE ME in the past).
And now AMC has MAD MEN and BREAKING BAD which are both substantially better than anything on network tv.
FX has THE SHIELD and now SUNNY IN PHILLY.
THE OFFICE almost doesn't count as an NBC product since Ricky Gervais is basically remaking the UK version.
BSG is sci fi.
FIREFLY was cancelled prematurely, as were excellent shows FREAKS AND GEEKS and WONDERFALLS. This seems par for the course: Shows are too good for tv; i think if FREAKS AND GEEKS were on HBO, they would've gotten a second season or so...
I'm not a fan of LOST or HEROES or 24 or CSI:foo, personally, but those are rare wins for Network tv. But what are the Biggest Name shows on network tv? AMERICAN IDOL, SURVIVOR... meh. Of those ilk, I again, prefer the cable offerings: ICE ROAD TRUCKERS, DEADLIEST CATCH.
This past season on network tv, I watched THE OFFICE, REAPER, CHUCK, and PUSHING DAISIES. oh and a guilty pleasure: BIG BANG THEORY.