Oh I''m sorry - I forgot - I'm supposed to orgasm at everything Apple produces. OMG THE VIDEO iPod is GREAT. OH yes! Yes! YES!
*Splooge*
Happy now? Mod me insightful and get me a tissue.
There's many windows full-screen media players that -don't- look like shit and are out of date and impractical to watch. Except for Apple of course - they're fucking perfect. Never mind anything I said and go back to your usual worshiping. We don't need a large-screen video iPod. What the fuck was I thinking.
re:"every single Mac would ship with a free Natalie Portman clone"
Woah woah woah - where was THAT? Mac OS rumors - or ThinkSecret?!
Oh boy oh boy - a new operating system AND a fuck-buddy! Now that's an upgrade! Please, tell us more! And this better not be a "geek-patrol" thing like Best Buy because that would be wrong.
Makes you wonder what kind of columnist we've got - I'm guessing somebody as credible as the people who bring us USA-Today.
I predict another 25 years before gaming is taken seriously in the popular-press. Sometime around the point where we stop hearing "shock and awe" articles about video games being the "latest thing" like we have for the last 33 years.
Whackettes? When did we get neurochemically addictive tv? I think most of it still sucks badly!
Now YouTube - oh yes, yes - YES!
But back to the story - yes it's more of a blattent one of those than the "let's make OJ's skin darker" variety. Still, always fun to scope out the news for doctoring. I recall a suspicious Time Magazine photo of the battlefield in Iraq, where several boddies were lined up on a hill. Everything on and around the hill cast a shadow - except the bodies. Even lying down there should have been SOME shadow cast next to them - like the twig they were laying right next to.
Not sure about the cheese grater argument. Yes the heat model has changed a bit, but look at the internals. It's pretty tight in there. The g3/g4 model design was around nearly 4 years. The grater was introduced in 2003, so there's at least a year left to go with this design if history means anything (it doesn't but didn't it seem like this argument almost made sense a minute ago?)
Frankly, I still like it compared to the B/W to mirror-door versions which just looked more bizzare with every revision (I think it only looked good in the dark gray (grey for uk) version).
GIven the extra crap towers are known for having to play host to, I'm not sure how small one can get before you chop-off the flexability. At least they're not as large as the "campus-fridge" Quadra 950s. Yoicks.
I also recall that the PS2 had many "kitchen sink" features that were phased out including Firewire support, the hard-drive bay and the disktray. I predict that over the lifespan of the product we'll see the unpopular features phased out - except for Blue-Ray of course.
Current video iPod is a piece of shit. I want a larger screen if I'm going to watch mobile video - like other portable media viewers. Thanks for the obvious remarkes that I addressed IN THE FIRST FUCKING SENTANCE.
Goddamn - did DIGG barf it's user base into Slashdot all at once?
"Barring getting the smaller screen version" Means - I don't want to watch postage stamp video. Go shove a troll - or garden gnome up your ass Diggfucker.
Jeezus fucking Christ this place has gotten retarded.
Barring getting the smaller screen version - there is an important niche for it that the article downplays. Moving videos to the tv - or more importantly to another tv. Previously, I'd record a tv show and take the tape to a friends and watch it there. Now, I'm downloading shows on iTunes (I don't watch much tv - and they have Monk) but they're locked to the desktop. I'd like to transfer them to the video iPod, watch it during a rail-commute, or plug it into a friends tv for playback.
We need mobile (handheld) solutions like we had with VHS. Plus my co-worker's portable media player is so - damn - cool.
The N64 had plenty of 70-dollar games. And this was Nintendo - HA - slag off on THAT!
I think the 500-dollar config is fine, and once it drops to 350-400, we'll see the usual demand past the bleeding edge weenies (like me) go for it.
The thing that struck me odd was how long the PS2 stayed above 250. I mean we were talking YEARS compared to the quarterly price drops everyone else had for the previous decade.
Actually acording to Yahoo it's over 50 miles - but not much more. Still, I'm amazed at the time you're making. Getting out of Greeley took forever, and it was further south.
I probably fudged the typo and you thought I said "scraped" as in "I junked my car" - I ment "scrape your windows". No biggie for most - until you're in a rush for work. You've never had to do this - in Denver?
If that's the case - global warming is 100% real and we're all gonna fry.
I know Denver is a slush zone - but in regards to the I36 corridor - Broomfield got CLOBBERED with snow not too long ago. When I say clobbered - I mean roofs falling in clobbered. Yes, if it's a spring fall then it melts in no time. But - if it's an October-surprise - oh you've got good snow for months to go. Remember both in 1998 and particularly in 1986 when Pena got into hot water because the city streets were so fouled up with snow-ruts that people were losing axels?
Yes it's rare - but at least twice a year the whole of the city is shut down for a few days (or at least if you're not telecommuting - I dare anyone to jump on the I25 from Cap-Hill and go to a Job at the Tech-Center during one of those). Not Minneapolis weather mind you - but not San Diego / SunnyVale CA either. IE - not "great".
I haven't scraped my car in years (Phoenix and back to California), and I really like not getting body work done by people whacking my car every year in parking lots and on the street (downtown).
That high altitude is cooking your brain - the partent post was talking about Ft Colins - you were insinuating that IBM and other Boulder firms were a scant 30 minutes from Ft. Collins. Oh and Highway 36 is a disaster area - particularly after the whole of the corridor built out partuclarly around Interlocken. If you're getting there in 45 minutes - either you're on the north side of Denver (which is an industrial wasteland) or are speeding like a bat out of hell from Aurora or Littleton Englewood. I won't also mention that I-25 is far - FAR worse than anything I've delt with on the 101 freeway.
I"m sorry this can be regarded as Troll - but since it shot soda out my nose into the screen - I'll take humor mods too. If only because my sinuses still sting from the Dr. Pepper. Ick.
How was that 2 to 3 feet of snow you had the year before last? Was that part of the "great"?
Speak of great - that doesn't scream "Sun Microsystems". Perhaps you meant Storage Tech - dang - Quark? Shoot they jobbed out all their devs to their India offices um - Sun?...
In a Testerrosa perhaps! You're right on the Wyoming border for shit's-sake!
You're describing Jobs in Boulder and Greeley was more than an hour north of there - and Ft. Colins is another hour north of Greeley. Please stop yanking people's chains!
I lived in Colorado off and on since 1984, and the tech jobs there were always in a state of downward flux. It only took a few companies to flood a ton of skilled workers into the marketplace - followed by a continual influx of people into the state from places in CA which would drive up the cost of living to levels akin to Seattle. Between 1994 and 1996, the same identical apartment that I rented came on the market 2 years later at 225% what I rented it for.
Pay levels did NOT increase to meet those cost of living increases. And housing? The whole of the southern suburbs of Denver went through the ROOF in housing costs. But hey - getting Quark, Echostar (and the markers of the Dish Network wasn't a small enterprise) would only give up more than 35k if you pulled on all molars. Most of Echostar's jobs were manning the call centers anyway. Real high-dollar work there. AB? Um most of their tech work is at HQ which is 876 miles east of you in St. Louis. IBM - always downsizing, Storage Tech - on the rocks, HP - oh there's a stable one of those, Kodak - another stable one of those - NOAA - no shortage of govt jobs in the fields of science, and the application time is so short too for high-end research. Aerospace is ok now that we're killing people again, but these aren't standard IT jobs unless you're ready to check stress-dynamics on dynamic peak loads within an airframe right after you finish that firewall you're putting on that intranetwork hub.
The biggest downfall of any midwestern tech market is that once the company runs through a round of cutbacks you're going to be hard-pressed to find someone else to pick up the slack. I know plenty of suckers hurting after Sprint ditched them in the middle of bumfuck Kansas with no other options for work elsewhere.
In fact, I think every commercial should start out "HEEEEEY - You're a real JERK!".
It would be much more interesting to the average viewer and would be a nice bit of disclosure at the top of the commercial break that you're going to be fed total bullshit for the next 10 minutes.
re: "you buy from iTunes, you can only use an iPod on your MP3 player."
Huh?
Apple's iPod can play any Mp3's including those you rip from your own CDs - which means it's both a DRM/AAC player and an MP3 player. Your sentence implies you can play Apple's Mp3 player on your (non-apple?) Mp3 player. This makes no sense. I know this is probably just a typo - but I have no idea what you could have ment otherwise.
re:"t Apple's copy-protection technology makes media companies into its servants"
Wasn't this the protection scheme that the media industry demanded over it's content before providing licesens for distribution - hence it's NOT Apple's? And if it's not Apple's - are you actually claiming that the media companies are making servants of themselves?
True story about that one though - the RF modulators in those days were a joke. They were basically just air (we cracked one open), and allowed the companies to dodge FCC violations on interference by putting the crime into the hands of the people (customers) who hooked it up. At the time I was living some 60 miles south of St. Louis, and to get TV reception of any decent kind, you needed an arial similar in height and construction to ones used by HAM radio operators.
The signals from the game sprayed all over the town as a result. This wasn't a faint jittery ghost image on Channel 3 - this was clear-as-a-bell-as-if-I'd-hooked-the-unit-up-to-yo ur-tv-myself, image. Kids at school were wondering who was playing on the left and the right - which is what caused a series of long-range bike rides to check our broadcast range later. Of course to this day I'm wondering what the ratings on "Pong TV" were from 7pm-830pm CST.
Actually it's "probably" the second syllable of a group of people saying "ya-hoo", but I like your theory much better. Me - I like the guy with the pillow to the far right who looks like he's having a spastic fit of some kind. Poor guy. Someone should put a mouth guard in him pronto before he bites his tongue off.
Still it's a pitty we don't get to see any melty faces. Perhaps I could overlay that scene from the movie onto that spot.
Slashdot Mirror
Oh I''m sorry - I forgot - I'm supposed to orgasm at everything Apple produces. OMG THE VIDEO iPod is GREAT. OH yes! Yes! YES!
*Splooge*
Happy now? Mod me insightful and get me a tissue.
There's many windows full-screen media players that -don't- look like shit and are out of date and impractical to watch. Except for Apple of course - they're fucking perfect. Never mind anything I said and go back to your usual worshiping. We don't need a large-screen video iPod. What the fuck was I thinking.
re:"every single Mac would ship with a free Natalie Portman clone"
Woah woah woah - where was THAT? Mac OS rumors - or ThinkSecret?!
Oh boy oh boy - a new operating system AND a fuck-buddy! Now that's an upgrade!
Please, tell us more! And this better not be a "geek-patrol" thing like Best Buy because that would be wrong.
So very wrong.
Makes you wonder what kind of columnist we've got - I'm guessing somebody as credible as the people who bring us USA-Today.
I predict another 25 years before gaming is taken seriously in the popular-press. Sometime around the point where we stop hearing "shock and awe" articles about video games being the "latest thing" like we have for the last 33 years.
Whackettes? When did we get neurochemically addictive tv? I think most of it still sucks badly!
Now YouTube - oh yes, yes - YES!
But back to the story - yes it's more of a blattent one of those than the "let's make OJ's skin darker" variety. Still, always fun to scope out the news for doctoring. I recall a suspicious Time Magazine photo of the battlefield in Iraq, where several boddies were lined up on a hill. Everything on and around the hill cast a shadow - except the bodies. Even lying down there should have been SOME shadow cast next to them - like the twig they were laying right next to.
Not sure about the cheese grater argument. Yes the heat model has changed a bit, but look at the internals. It's pretty tight in there. The g3/g4 model design was around nearly 4 years. The grater was introduced in 2003, so there's at least a year left to go with this design if history means anything (it doesn't but didn't it seem like this argument almost made sense a minute ago?)
Frankly, I still like it compared to the B/W to mirror-door versions which just looked more bizzare with every revision (I think it only looked good in the dark gray (grey for uk) version).
GIven the extra crap towers are known for having to play host to, I'm not sure how small one can get before you chop-off the flexability. At least they're not as large as the "campus-fridge" Quadra 950s. Yoicks.
I also recall that the PS2 had many "kitchen sink" features that were phased out including Firewire support, the hard-drive bay and the disktray. I predict that over the lifespan of the product we'll see the unpopular features phased out - except for Blue-Ray of course.
Current video iPod sucks shit. See first sentence for details.
Current video iPod is a piece of shit. I want a larger screen if I'm going to watch mobile video - like other portable media viewers. Thanks for the obvious remarkes that I addressed IN THE FIRST FUCKING SENTANCE.
Goddamn - did DIGG barf it's user base into Slashdot all at once?
"Barring getting the smaller screen version" Means - I don't want to watch postage stamp video. Go shove a troll - or garden gnome up your ass Diggfucker.
Jeezus fucking Christ this place has gotten retarded.
Barring getting the smaller screen version - there is an important niche for it that the article downplays. Moving videos to the tv - or more importantly to another tv. Previously, I'd record a tv show and take the tape to a friends and watch it there. Now, I'm downloading shows on iTunes (I don't watch much tv - and they have Monk) but they're locked to the desktop. I'd like to transfer them to the video iPod, watch it during a rail-commute, or plug it into a friends tv for playback.
We need mobile (handheld) solutions like we had with VHS. Plus my co-worker's portable media player is so - damn - cool.
The N64 had plenty of 70-dollar games. And this was Nintendo - HA - slag off on THAT!
I think the 500-dollar config is fine, and once it drops to 350-400, we'll see the usual demand past the bleeding edge weenies (like me) go for it.
The thing that struck me odd was how long the PS2 stayed above 250. I mean we were talking YEARS compared to the quarterly price drops everyone else had for the previous decade.
A POSTIVE article from Slashdot about Sony?
Must be a beer bash at the slashdot offices or something.
I thought I was on Digg for a minute there...
Actually acording to Yahoo it's over 50 miles - but not much more. Still, I'm amazed at the time you're making. Getting out of Greeley took forever, and it was further south.
s z=Fort+Collins%2C+Colorado&country=us&tcsz=Boulder %2C+Colorado&tcountry=us
http://maps.yahoo.com/dd_result?newaddr=&taddr=&c
Plus when did 54 become a freeway? I didn't think you could do 60plus on that road.
I probably fudged the typo and you thought I said "scraped" as in "I junked my car" - I ment "scrape your windows". No biggie for most - until you're in a rush for work. You've never had to do this - in Denver?
If that's the case - global warming is 100% real and we're all gonna fry.
Can I have your stereo?
Then I want a picture of that car you're driving 225 miles an hour with. Your gas costs must be hiddeous.
I know Denver is a slush zone - but in regards to the I36 corridor - Broomfield got CLOBBERED with snow not too long ago. When I say clobbered - I mean roofs falling in clobbered. Yes, if it's a spring fall then it melts in no time. But - if it's an October-surprise - oh you've got good snow for months to go. Remember both in 1998 and particularly in 1986 when Pena got into hot water because the city streets were so fouled up with snow-ruts that people were losing axels?
Yes it's rare - but at least twice a year the whole of the city is shut down for a few days (or at least if you're not telecommuting - I dare anyone to jump on the I25 from Cap-Hill and go to a Job at the Tech-Center during one of those). Not Minneapolis weather mind you - but not San Diego / SunnyVale CA either. IE - not "great".
I haven't scraped my car in years (Phoenix and back to California), and I really like not getting body work done by people whacking my car every year in parking lots and on the street (downtown).
That high altitude is cooking your brain - the partent post was talking about Ft Colins - you were insinuating that IBM and other Boulder firms were a scant 30 minutes from Ft. Collins. Oh and Highway 36 is a disaster area - particularly after the whole of the corridor built out partuclarly around Interlocken. If you're getting there in 45 minutes - either you're on the north side of Denver (which is an industrial wasteland) or are speeding like a bat out of hell from Aurora or Littleton Englewood. I won't also mention that I-25 is far - FAR worse than anything I've delt with on the 101 freeway.
And they're STILL fucking with the damn thing.
I"m sorry this can be regarded as Troll - but since it shot soda out my nose into the screen - I'll take humor mods too. If only because my sinuses still sting from the Dr. Pepper. Ick.
How was that 2 to 3 feet of snow you had the year before last? Was that part of the "great"?
Speak of great - that doesn't scream "Sun Microsystems". Perhaps you meant Storage Tech - dang - Quark? Shoot they jobbed out all their devs to their India offices um - Sun?...
HALF HOUR DRIVE FROM FT. COLINS?
In a Testerrosa perhaps! You're right on the Wyoming border for shit's-sake!
You're describing Jobs in Boulder and Greeley was more than an hour north of there - and Ft. Colins is another hour north of Greeley. Please stop yanking people's chains!
I lived in Colorado off and on since 1984, and the tech jobs there were always in a state of downward flux. It only took a few companies to flood a ton of skilled workers into the marketplace - followed by a continual influx of people into the state from places in CA which would drive up the cost of living to levels akin to Seattle. Between 1994 and 1996, the same identical apartment that I rented came on the market 2 years later at 225% what I rented it for.
Pay levels did NOT increase to meet those cost of living increases. And housing? The whole of the southern suburbs of Denver went through the ROOF in housing costs. But hey - getting Quark, Echostar (and the markers of the Dish Network wasn't a small enterprise) would only give up more than 35k if you pulled on all molars. Most of Echostar's jobs were manning the call centers anyway. Real high-dollar work there. AB? Um most of their tech work is at HQ which is 876 miles east of you in St. Louis. IBM - always downsizing, Storage Tech - on the rocks, HP - oh there's a stable one of those, Kodak - another stable one of those - NOAA - no shortage of govt jobs in the fields of science, and the application time is so short too for high-end research. Aerospace is ok now that we're killing people again, but these aren't standard IT jobs unless you're ready to check stress-dynamics on dynamic peak loads within an airframe right after you finish that firewall you're putting on that intranetwork hub.
The biggest downfall of any midwestern tech market is that once the company runs through a round of cutbacks you're going to be hard-pressed to find someone else to pick up the slack. I know plenty of suckers hurting after Sprint ditched them in the middle of bumfuck Kansas with no other options for work elsewhere.
Bingo - didn't go through the conjunctions. Was focused on either of the two subjects. Course I was also coked up on folgers...
I didn't because that's a good one.
In fact, I think every commercial should start out "HEEEEEY - You're a real JERK!".
It would be much more interesting to the average viewer and would be a nice bit
of disclosure at the top of the commercial break that you're going to be fed total
bullshit for the next 10 minutes.
re: "you buy from iTunes, you can only use an iPod on your MP3 player."
Huh?
Apple's iPod can play any Mp3's including those you rip from your own CDs - which means it's both a DRM/AAC player and an MP3 player. Your sentence implies you can play Apple's Mp3 player on your (non-apple?) Mp3 player. This makes no sense. I know this is probably just a typo - but I have no idea what you could have ment otherwise.
re:"t Apple's copy-protection technology makes media companies into its servants"
Wasn't this the protection scheme that the media industry demanded over it's content before providing licesens for distribution - hence it's NOT Apple's? And if it's not Apple's - are you actually claiming that the media companies are making servants of themselves?
The Odyssey 300 was my first system:
o ur-tv-myself, image. Kids at school were wondering who was playing on the left and the right - which is what caused a series of long-range bike rides to check our broadcast range later. Of course to this day I'm wondering what the ratings on "Pong TV" were from 7pm-830pm CST.
http://www.pong-story.com/odyssey_other.htm (it's the yellow one).
True story about that one though - the RF modulators in those days were a joke. They were basically just air (we cracked one open), and allowed the companies to dodge FCC violations on interference by putting the crime into the hands of the people (customers) who hooked it up. At the time I was living some 60 miles south of St. Louis, and to get TV reception of any decent kind, you needed an arial similar in height and construction to ones used by HAM radio operators.
The signals from the game sprayed all over the town as a result. This wasn't a faint jittery ghost image on Channel 3 - this was clear-as-a-bell-as-if-I'd-hooked-the-unit-up-to-y
Actually it's "probably" the second syllable of a group of people saying "ya-hoo", but I like your theory much better.
Me - I like the guy with the pillow to the far right who looks like he's having a spastic fit of some kind. Poor guy. Someone
should put a mouth guard in him pronto before he bites his tongue off.
Still it's a pitty we don't get to see any melty faces. Perhaps I could overlay that scene from the movie onto that spot.
Where's my Raiders DVD...