You think opening a waveform in cooledit will allow you to detect a couple of bits changed here or there? Apparently you've never worked with sound before, but thanks for your input anyway.
I'm suprised to see Pilotwings 64 on that list. I thought we all had acknowledged that it was just a launch period eye-candy title. If we're going to get nostalgic about the N64, that's not the one i would have picked.
I saw they had a review of the best SNES games too. And i specifically went through to see if they were smart enough to include Uniracers. They did. So Me and my brother weren't crazy after all...
They're on the net because hospitals run a slew of systems. a system for ICU, a system for radiology, a system for the pharmacy... Some of these systems are web-based apps used on contract from 3rd party software vendors. I'm on IT staff at a hospital that got wasted by Katrina. Having our T1's shut down (literally destroyed) basically crippled them to the stone age. We have 9 sister hospitals, and they all share the same systems based in New Orleans.
in other words, yes, there's tons of stuff we actually need the net for at the hospital. Don't forget, we've even got med students, interns, and researchers here full time.
News flash: You think the heads-up about security updates is for you, the imac using home user? No. Its for us IT professionals that have to manage 1500+ machine Active Directory networks.
So go ahead with your imac. Have fun with your ipod. But don't expect the rest of the corporate world to be impressed.
But 'where the market is eventually going' is not the same as 'what we can get people to shell out $400-500 dollars for today'. Again, look at the Dreamcast. Part of it is being at the right time (before everybody else, but not before people are willing to pay for it) and part of it is marketing to people who wouldn't buy the product only for its regular intended purpose (aka joe sixpack non-gamer HDTV shopper).
The 'rampant success' of the PSP you speak of is nothing on the scale of what they're trying to accomplish. PSP may be big to you. Personally, i know two people that have them, and they're kids (relatively).
If they're gonna get on in every living room, marketeing it as the next gen HD movie format, they're gonna have to sell it to my mom and dad too. I don't know anybody's mom and dad that watch movies on their PSP. You see the difference in scale i'm talking about?
Sure, why not! Why would you NOT want extra feautures?
I'd be clamoring for a $600 cell phone that plays music, watches video, manages my schedule, a 12" widescreen display... See my point here? Number one, we've tried the everything-to-everybody-devices before. They usually don't do that great.
Number two, it'll be hard to get the average non-gaming best buy shopper in the HDTV section to take notice of the PS3 over there in the 'kids' gaming section. They've got the PS3 name. Playstation = games. As of right now, Playstation != next gen HD movie content. It's possible, but they've got to get it out there.
Give my dad a reason to even LOOK at a ps3. He's a HD connoisseur like anybody else, but the thought of getting a PS3 wouldnt' even go through his mind.
Since when do we put up with this kind of thing? Any religious group in america starts stockpiling weapons and burning buildings and we send in the ATF. Why? Because they don't have any business doing what they're doing. I don't care if its your religion. Guess what? Maybe MY beliefs (american freedoms) involve me not having to be being killed/raped/whatever by you.
You want to practice your religion? Fine. But it should involve no effort or caring on my part. And that goes double when the effort or caring has to do with me not being killed. Regardless of how PC it is, here's a newsflash: I don't *have* to like or tolerate anybody elses religion.
As far as i'm concerned, the only difference between branch dividians and muslims is A) the number of practicing followers and B) they're eagerness to actually USE the weapons they've stockpiled.
If you think everyone's going overboard about the DRM, I think you've missed some points.
First of all, how often do you either:
A) get a new computer or
B) format your drive and re-install windows.
You are unaffected by iTunes DRM only if your answer is:
1. "never" or
2. longer than ((number of years left in your life)/(number of times you can authorize tracks))
And no, if i PURCHASE tracks, i don't want to have to burn my own cd's and re-import them. Thats ridiculous. You're buying music that at one point or another, you won't be able to play. Granted, physical media doesn't last indefinitely, but guess what? I can currently play CDs i bought 10 years ago. I'll check back with you in 2016, and we'll see how much of that DRM'd music you paid for still works.
There's nothing stopping them from being able to move back and forth between PPC and x86 now. Everything form this point on will be univeral binaries, right? So once we've made the 'switch' to intel, we're not really switching anything. We've only added x86 support.
Yeah, an lcd is great. but not at the expense of what the shuffle is targeted at. Basically indestructable, simple (did i mention simple?) player that can be operated without looking at it. Think at the gym, out for a jog, cycling, or even on a motorcycle. During those activities, i don't want a device that i have to worry about breaking, or have to divert my attention to operate. not to mention, the lanyard is pretty handy for said activities.
if you want a screen and all the gizmos, just get one with all the gizmos. There's plenty of variations. But don't assume that there's no reason on the planet someone might *not* want the gizmos.
There's another category that most of the population fits into.
This category is described by these three characteristics:
1. they don't even have more than 2GB of music. Not everyone sits around at night going through the ID3 tags on their OGG collection. The jist of the story: most people don't care that much. They're fine with $10 headphones because they don't care. They don't need lossless encoding and super hi-fi audio gear.
2. they want the smallest/thinnest/lightest/coolest gadget. enter the nano, the razr, blackberry... this one is not hard to imagine.
3. they simply won't spend $300+ on music anything. they're not audiophiles, and they don't care about a collection of music. I'm got a CS degree and I work in a recording studio. Music is a huge thing to me, and $300 for an iPod is no big deal, but most people just don't care that much.
Yeah, i'm with you, when i upgrade from my old 3rd gen, I'll go with a 60GB, but we're really the vast minority here.
That's not the point. If you want to take your whole music collection, get a 30GB or 60GB full-size.
The shuffle was meant for a whole different user. It's made to take to the gym or go running with. You don't always need a screen and a complicated interface for that type of activity. I know you'll say the ipod's interface isn't that complicated, but it is when you're riding a motorcycle. I just want start, stop, next track, and volume. plus, hanging it around your neck is super-conventient for the types of activites that the shuffle is meant for. not to mention it's a great generic usb flashdrive to boot.
my sister sold her 1st gen 5GB ipod to buy a 512 shuffle. she enjoys it alot more, and ends up actually using it, where her old ipod sat in her purse.
They're the same people shopping in best buy that think acompletely slammed eq curve sounds good. 50hz range is rattling the upholstery of my car? check! 10k range sounds like its cutting lasers through my eyeballs? check!
Sometimes you sat that same guy in front of some mackie hr824's, and he'll be speechless. But most of the time, they won't even notice a difference. And its that second group that scares me.
I second the motorcycle. I've got smaller sportbike (Kawasaki ninja 250) that gets 60+ miles per gallon, and costs 1/5 of what my car costs to insure.
It does suck in cold weather and in the rain though. I personally can't do it all the time without a car, but I live in the US, and i'm out of college now...
I've had a motorola razr phone for over a year and a half. i'm over the honeymoon phase where you're super-careful with it, and I find its just as sturdy as the nokia mini-brick type phone I had before that. Tiny/thin != broken in half
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Two franchises I'm surprised I haven't seen on the list so far:
1. Street Fighter II - Did anyone *not* care about this game in 1992 or whenever that was?
2. Bomberman - Maybe the multiplayer Bomberman phenomenon wasn't as widespread as i had thought.
I salute you, my felow TIE Fighter player.
You think opening a waveform in cooledit will allow you to detect a couple of bits changed here or there? Apparently you've never worked with sound before, but thanks for your input anyway.
Agreed. I was thinking the same thing.
I work IT in a hospital. I'll admit i have no idea what's *actually* going on in the pathology or cardio systems.
I'm not a cardiologist. Enron IT guys weren't accountants.
And since i don't think anyone would consider Pilotwings 64 'obscure', I'm still not sure how it got on the list...
I'm suprised to see Pilotwings 64 on that list. I thought we all had acknowledged that it was just a launch period eye-candy title. If we're going to get nostalgic about the N64, that's not the one i would have picked.
I saw they had a review of the best SNES games too. And i specifically went through to see if they were smart enough to include Uniracers. They did. So Me and my brother weren't crazy after all...
Honestly, that's the funniest post I've read in a long time.
They're on the net because hospitals run a slew of systems. a system for ICU, a system for radiology, a system for the pharmacy... Some of these systems are web-based apps used on contract from 3rd party software vendors. I'm on IT staff at a hospital that got wasted by Katrina. Having our T1's shut down (literally destroyed) basically crippled them to the stone age. We have 9 sister hospitals, and they all share the same systems based in New Orleans.
in other words, yes, there's tons of stuff we actually need the net for at the hospital. Don't forget, we've even got med students, interns, and researchers here full time.
Yes.
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Pretty funny guy.
News flash: You think the heads-up about security updates is for you, the imac using home user? No. Its for us IT professionals that have to manage 1500+ machine Active Directory networks.
So go ahead with your imac. Have fun with your ipod. But don't expect the rest of the corporate world to be impressed.
But 'where the market is eventually going' is not the same as 'what we can get people to shell out $400-500 dollars for today'. Again, look at the Dreamcast. Part of it is being at the right time (before everybody else, but not before people are willing to pay for it) and part of it is marketing to people who wouldn't buy the product only for its regular intended purpose (aka joe sixpack non-gamer HDTV shopper).
The 'rampant success' of the PSP you speak of is nothing on the scale of what they're trying to accomplish. PSP may be big to you. Personally, i know two people that have them, and they're kids (relatively).
If they're gonna get on in every living room, marketeing it as the next gen HD movie format, they're gonna have to sell it to my mom and dad too. I don't know anybody's mom and dad that watch movies on their PSP. You see the difference in scale i'm talking about?
Sure, why not! Why would you NOT want extra feautures?
I'd be clamoring for a $600 cell phone that plays music, watches video, manages my schedule, a 12" widescreen display... See my point here? Number one, we've tried the everything-to-everybody-devices before. They usually don't do that great.
Number two, it'll be hard to get the average non-gaming best buy shopper in the HDTV section to take notice of the PS3 over there in the 'kids' gaming section. They've got the PS3 name. Playstation = games. As of right now, Playstation != next gen HD movie content. It's possible, but they've got to get it out there.
Give my dad a reason to even LOOK at a ps3. He's a HD connoisseur like anybody else, but the thought of getting a PS3 wouldnt' even go through his mind.
No, there's definitely a such thing as 'too much' on a gaming console.
Remember the Dreamcast? Dial-up modem, the whole thing. It tried to do too much at the time, before the consumers were ready for it.
I don't care if blue ray IS the next big thing. Its not the big enough thing now to get the word out that the PS3 is more than a game machine.
Since when do we put up with this kind of thing? Any religious group in america starts stockpiling weapons and burning buildings and we send in the ATF. Why? Because they don't have any business doing what they're doing. I don't care if its your religion. Guess what? Maybe MY beliefs (american freedoms) involve me not having to be being killed/raped/whatever by you.
You want to practice your religion? Fine. But it should involve no effort or caring on my part. And that goes double when the effort or caring has to do with me not being killed. Regardless of how PC it is, here's a newsflash: I don't *have* to like or tolerate anybody elses religion.
As far as i'm concerned, the only difference between branch dividians and muslims is A) the number of practicing followers and B) they're eagerness to actually USE the weapons they've stockpiled.
If you think everyone's going overboard about the DRM, I think you've missed some points.
First of all, how often do you either:
A) get a new computer or
B) format your drive and re-install windows.
You are unaffected by iTunes DRM only if your answer is:
1. "never" or
2. longer than ((number of years left in your life)/(number of times you can authorize tracks))
And no, if i PURCHASE tracks, i don't want to have to burn my own cd's and re-import them. Thats ridiculous. You're buying music that at one point or another, you won't be able to play. Granted, physical media doesn't last indefinitely, but guess what? I can currently play CDs i bought 10 years ago. I'll check back with you in 2016, and we'll see how much of that DRM'd music you paid for still works.
There's nothing stopping them from being able to move back and forth between PPC and x86 now. Everything form this point on will be univeral binaries, right? So once we've made the 'switch' to intel, we're not really switching anything. We've only added x86 support.
or how about the special edition iiiBop. filled with... you guessed it... those zany washed-out hanson brothers.
Okay I'll bite.
Yeah, an lcd is great. but not at the expense of what the shuffle is targeted at. Basically indestructable, simple (did i mention simple?) player that can be operated without looking at it. Think at the gym, out for a jog, cycling, or even on a motorcycle. During those activities, i don't want a device that i have to worry about breaking, or have to divert my attention to operate. not to mention, the lanyard is pretty handy for said activities.
if you want a screen and all the gizmos, just get one with all the gizmos. There's plenty of variations. But don't assume that there's no reason on the planet someone might *not* want the gizmos.
There's another category that most of the population fits into.
This category is described by these three characteristics:
1. they don't even have more than 2GB of music. Not everyone sits around at night going through the ID3 tags on their OGG collection. The jist of the story: most people don't care that much. They're fine with $10 headphones because they don't care. They don't need lossless encoding and super hi-fi audio gear.
2. they want the smallest/thinnest/lightest/coolest gadget. enter the nano, the razr, blackberry... this one is not hard to imagine.
3. they simply won't spend $300+ on music anything. they're not audiophiles, and they don't care about a collection of music. I'm got a CS degree and I work in a recording studio. Music is a huge thing to me, and $300 for an iPod is no big deal, but most people just don't care that much.
Yeah, i'm with you, when i upgrade from my old 3rd gen, I'll go with a 60GB, but we're really the vast minority here.
That's not the point. If you want to take your whole music collection, get a 30GB or 60GB full-size.
The shuffle was meant for a whole different user. It's made to take to the gym or go running with. You don't always need a screen and a complicated interface for that type of activity. I know you'll say the ipod's interface isn't that complicated, but it is when you're riding a motorcycle. I just want start, stop, next track, and volume. plus, hanging it around your neck is super-conventient for the types of activites that the shuffle is meant for. not to mention it's a great generic usb flashdrive to boot.
my sister sold her 1st gen 5GB ipod to buy a 512 shuffle. she enjoys it alot more, and ends up actually using it, where her old ipod sat in her purse.
Just stop questioning them.
They're the same people shopping in best buy that think acompletely slammed eq curve sounds good. 50hz range is rattling the upholstery of my car? check! 10k range sounds like its cutting lasers through my eyeballs? check!
Sometimes you sat that same guy in front of some mackie hr824's, and he'll be speechless. But most of the time, they won't even notice a difference. And its that second group that scares me.
By the way, its 'cardioid'.
I second the motorcycle. I've got smaller sportbike (Kawasaki ninja 250) that gets 60+ miles per gallon, and costs 1/5 of what my car costs to insure.
It does suck in cold weather and in the rain though. I personally can't do it all the time without a car, but I live in the US, and i'm out of college now...
Agreed.
I've had a motorola razr phone for over a year and a half. i'm over the honeymoon phase where you're super-careful with it, and I find its just as sturdy as the nokia mini-brick type phone I had before that. Tiny/thin != broken in half