That's an estimate, by the way:
10x more functional
10x more elegant
10x easier on the eyes
10x easier to use
= 10,000. Suck it, Google. You're as bad as the rest of the Apple wannabes.
"The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste, they have absolutely no taste, and what that means is—I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way. In the sense that they they don't think of original ideas and they don't bring much culture into their product, ehm, and you say, why is that important? Well, you know, proportionally spaced fonts come from typesetting and beautiful books, that's where one gets the idea. If it weren't for the Mac they would never have that in their products, and, ehm, so, I guess I am saddened, not by Microsoft's success—I have no problem with their success, they've earned their success for the most part—I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third rate products." — Steve Jobs
Yeah, Java apps "work" on the Mac, if you're a recent switcher from the PC world and therefore accustomed to mediocrity and very undemanding of your desktop environment--in short, if you're a tasteless dweeb. But if you're like any real Mac user, you'll notice all the millions of things wrong with a Java app on first launch, and you'll dustbin it the first chance you get. (There's a reason Mac users prefer Transmission to Azureus.)
Actually, most of us Mac users wish that inveterate PC users like you would stay on Windows and Linux, and that you'd stop switching to our platform en masse like it were some badge of honor or something. It's people like you who buy a Mac and then complain about the lack of a "maximize" button, completely missing the fact that Mac users don't maximize (we zoom) and that if you're unable to handle having more than one window on your screen at once, you probably should have stuck to your PC. Many Mac-centric hardware and software developers are already starting to dilute their products in order to cater to tasteless dweebs like you, the lowest common denominator, switchers one and all.
So, no, we'd much rather you didn't buy Macs, and that you just kept your filthy PC fingers to yourself.
Or in your case, to sucker people into a scam with the promise of a free Mac.
The design and overall vibe of the website linked in your sig fucking stinks of the PC mentality. Never trust a PC user, I say; even less a PC user hawking "FreeMacs4Me."
I'm pointing out that the social center of Japanese culture is highly racist, sexist, intolerant, and conservative in comparison to Western norms (even the United States). That's dandy if you're comfortable with that sort of interpersonal alienation, as you would be if you'd grown up in Japan, but if you're a Westerner traveling to Japan because it's "cool," you'd probably better be informed that you're chasing a fantasy that doesn't exist.
As a first-generation Japanese American, I've never understood why people like you fetishize my country of origin in such an uncritical, irrational manner. Is it because you want to steal our women? By all means, help yourself--but be warned that Fecal Japan is no myth at all. Is it because you imagine yourselves being able to "fit in" better in Japan? Let me assure you that this is nothing but delusion, an artifact of your Western upbringing perhaps. But unless you share with the Japanese a slavish, unquestioning intolerance, isolationism, sexism, homophobia, and a general social conservatism that makes Hitler look progressive--oh, and by the way, Japanese-looking features and male genitalia--don't expect to find over there the acceptance you lack here.
All your comments assume the market demographic of gamers is static. The whole point is that Nintendo's trying to expand that demographic to people, like myself, who've never bought consoles before. It's totally within reason to speculate that (a) one reason we haven't bought consoles is that they're marketed towards hardcore gamers, (b) hardcore gamers play solo more often than the average person would, (c) those of us who haven't formerly been gamers aren't going to have tons of friends around with extra controllers, so it would make sense for Nintendo to include a second controller with the console, and (d) Nintendo's done its research and has figured all the above out for itself.
Maybe you can help me out, because I'm having trouble understanding what you're not understanding. Why does everyone think AAC is an Apple standard? AAC is the name of MPEG-4's audio component. Period.
What flavor Kool-Aid are you people drinking to persist in your ignorance a good six years after companies (not Apple) first started manufacturing AAC-compatible players?
Really? You can't tell the difference between "m4a" and "m4p"?
I'll point out that MP3s could be encrypted using FairPlay, too, if Apple ever decided to do so--but they won't, since AAC is the MPEG's group successor to MP3, and greatly improved.
I'm not sure (yet) how you'd use liquid crystal lenses to give you 3D displays, but it'd be cool to have a display sitting at regular display distance, but where the image looks like it's a movie screen, movie screen distance away. Could reduce eyestrain a lot, though you'd have to keep your head "in the zone" to see the whole image at once. And you could do it with a regular lens.
It's such an obvious concept that I'm still left wondering it hasn't been translated to manmade optics. FWIW, the lens in a human eye changes its focal length when a muscle pulls it from the outside--nature's simple solution to the problem of giving it adaptable focal length while still keeping it transparent.
Using two lenses with adaptable focus, you'd be able to zoom without needing to change the barrel length, if my understanding is correct. This would simplify the mechanical requirements for variable focus and optical zoom to the point where it would make sense to include both features in consumer electronics.
Also, there's nothing stopping a professional photographer or cinematographer from putting film behind that felxible lens. Being able to ditch that truck full of heavy glass optics would be a great boon for professionals.
That was my first thought, too. A camera like that would be incredibly exciting (a cell phone camera that doesn't have to suck)!
I'm not too familiar with optics or CCD technology, so forgive the question: what's been keeping us from developing a camera based on the same focusing principle as the human eye? Our lens stretches and contracts to adapt its focal length, and it not clear to me why it's been so difficult to adapt this principle to manmade optical equipment. Anyone got an answer?
Holy, holy shit. Assuming you're wrong about the AC being "Johnny," this makes TWO people you've mistaken for him. Delusional much? Ghosts in the dark? Leap at shadows?
There is no conspiracy here. Again, please seek help.
Slashdot Mirror
Shocking!
...which is 10,000x better than Google Calendar.
That's an estimate, by the way:
10x more functional
10x more elegant
10x easier on the eyes
10x easier to use
= 10,000.
Suck it, Google. You're as bad as the rest of the Apple wannabes.
"The only problem with Microsoft is they just have no taste, they have absolutely no taste, and what that means is—I don't mean that in a small way, I mean that in a big way. In the sense that they they don't think of original ideas and they don't bring much culture into their product, ehm, and you say, why is that important? Well, you know, proportionally spaced fonts come from typesetting and beautiful books, that's where one gets the idea. If it weren't for the Mac they would never have that in their products, and, ehm, so, I guess I am saddened, not by Microsoft's success—I have no problem with their success, they've earned their success for the most part—I have a problem with the fact that they just make really third rate products."
— Steve Jobs
...how does Microsoft only have a Class B? Could it be, as with everything else, that Apple beat them to the party?
There's no such thing as fashionably late in technology. This only proves the obvious: Microsoft is hopelessly square.
My comment was in response to an AC reply to your post. Is your threshold set to +1?
Yeah, Java apps "work" on the Mac, if you're a recent switcher from the PC world and therefore accustomed to mediocrity and very undemanding of your desktop environment--in short, if you're a tasteless dweeb. But if you're like any real Mac user, you'll notice all the millions of things wrong with a Java app on first launch, and you'll dustbin it the first chance you get. (There's a reason Mac users prefer Transmission to Azureus.)
Actually, most of us Mac users wish that inveterate PC users like you would stay on Windows and Linux, and that you'd stop switching to our platform en masse like it were some badge of honor or something. It's people like you who buy a Mac and then complain about the lack of a "maximize" button, completely missing the fact that Mac users don't maximize (we zoom) and that if you're unable to handle having more than one window on your screen at once, you probably should have stuck to your PC. Many Mac-centric hardware and software developers are already starting to dilute their products in order to cater to tasteless dweebs like you, the lowest common denominator, switchers one and all.
So, no, we'd much rather you didn't buy Macs, and that you just kept your filthy PC fingers to yourself.
Or in your case, to sucker people into a scam with the promise of a free Mac.
The design and overall vibe of the website linked in your sig fucking stinks of the PC mentality. Never trust a PC user, I say; even less a PC user hawking "FreeMacs4Me."
I'm pointing out that the social center of Japanese culture is highly racist, sexist, intolerant, and conservative in comparison to Western norms (even the United States). That's dandy if you're comfortable with that sort of interpersonal alienation, as you would be if you'd grown up in Japan, but if you're a Westerner traveling to Japan because it's "cool," you'd probably better be informed that you're chasing a fantasy that doesn't exist.
As a first-generation Japanese American, I've never understood why people like you fetishize my country of origin in such an uncritical, irrational manner. Is it because you want to steal our women? By all means, help yourself--but be warned that Fecal Japan is no myth at all. Is it because you imagine yourselves being able to "fit in" better in Japan? Let me assure you that this is nothing but delusion, an artifact of your Western upbringing perhaps. But unless you share with the Japanese a slavish, unquestioning intolerance, isolationism, sexism, homophobia, and a general social conservatism that makes Hitler look progressive--oh, and by the way, Japanese-looking features and male genitalia--don't expect to find over there the acceptance you lack here.
Or in Pravda. Or from the mouth of our president when he insists the "insurgency" is collapsing from within.
Please get a clue.
Your computer is misrendering I in single quotes as T. Let me guess--Linux/Windows user?
All your comments assume the market demographic of gamers is static. The whole point is that Nintendo's trying to expand that demographic to people, like myself, who've never bought consoles before. It's totally within reason to speculate that (a) one reason we haven't bought consoles is that they're marketed towards hardcore gamers, (b) hardcore gamers play solo more often than the average person would, (c) those of us who haven't formerly been gamers aren't going to have tons of friends around with extra controllers, so it would make sense for Nintendo to include a second controller with the console, and (d) Nintendo's done its research and has figured all the above out for itself.
Demonstrating once again that Nintendo is just Apple disguised.
Maybe you can help me out, because I'm having trouble understanding what you're not understanding. Why does everyone think AAC is an Apple standard? AAC is the name of MPEG-4's audio component. Period.
What flavor Kool-Aid are you people drinking to persist in your ignorance a good six years after companies (not Apple) first started manufacturing AAC-compatible players?
Really? You can't tell the difference between "m4a" and "m4p"?
I'll point out that MP3s could be encrypted using FairPlay, too, if Apple ever decided to do so--but they won't, since AAC is the MPEG's group successor to MP3, and greatly improved.
Yeah, it's been done. :-)
I'm not sure (yet) how you'd use liquid crystal lenses to give you 3D displays, but it'd be cool to have a display sitting at regular display distance, but where the image looks like it's a movie screen, movie screen distance away. Could reduce eyestrain a lot, though you'd have to keep your head "in the zone" to see the whole image at once. And you could do it with a regular lens.
Awesome. Thanks for the link.
It's such an obvious concept that I'm still left wondering it hasn't been translated to manmade optics. FWIW, the lens in a human eye changes its focal length when a muscle pulls it from the outside--nature's simple solution to the problem of giving it adaptable focal length while still keeping it transparent.
Using two lenses with adaptable focus, you'd be able to zoom without needing to change the barrel length, if my understanding is correct. This would simplify the mechanical requirements for variable focus and optical zoom to the point where it would make sense to include both features in consumer electronics.
Also, there's nothing stopping a professional photographer or cinematographer from putting film behind that felxible lens. Being able to ditch that truck full of heavy glass optics would be a great boon for professionals.
That was my first thought, too. A camera like that would be incredibly exciting (a cell phone camera that doesn't have to suck)!
I'm not too familiar with optics or CCD technology, so forgive the question: what's been keeping us from developing a camera based on the same focusing principle as the human eye? Our lens stretches and contracts to adapt its focal length, and it not clear to me why it's been so difficult to adapt this principle to manmade optical equipment. Anyone got an answer?
I think you might have been referring to Sony's ATRAC, which was the format used on Minidiscs. AAC is MPEG-4 Audio.
That said, the Zen doesn't play AAC, seriously? Why does everyone say it's more "featureful" than the iPod?
Hmm? The New Yorker doesn't use apostrophes when pluralizing abbreviations. See here, for example: "DVDs," not "DVD's."
:-P
Anyway, why are you taking style hints from a source that seems to think it unobjectionable to splatter its pages with uncontrolled diereses?
There is no conspiracy here. Again, please seek help.