Hate to say it, since their ipod image worked so well, but do you think its time for a change, Mac?
Seriously, if you want to be innovative, don't just create the next evolution of the iPod (i.e. ipod with touch screen, internet and phone, as well as internet widgets most browsers can get quite easily). I know its very different from the pod...but in many ways most of my friend's newer pods are different from my own (no color vs. color, images, movies, downloadable games...).
But calling it the "iPhone" just points out that its a contuation of your evolutionary design. Except in this case, anyone who owns a blackberry and a video iPod doesn't honestly need such a thing unless they don't want two of their four pockets loaded.
Honestly, average number of pockets in a suit and dress pants or cargo pants: 7. Include a vest with the cargo pants and I can roll that up to about 14 pockets. Assuming you carry your keys and wallet, that leaves room for your napkin, i-pod, cell phone, a random 3 ft chord (lets just say ethernet), blackberry and deck of Magic: The Gathering.
We don't need all these features crammed into one gadget. But an average RAZR costs about $15+decent plan, and an average older gen video i-pod costs like $200. Why pay $500, the price of both (easily), for a SINGLE gadget? When it breaks, there goes $500. As opposed to when my phone wears out (which will, assuming the shelf life of both devices are the same, take 2x+ as long as I'm not using my phone for MP3s or movies) and I have to buy another...
Of course there's the "but you can't surf the internet on the go". Besides my laptop, I have a DS, which not only plays MP3s, uses Skype, Firefox, AIM, IRC, a word processor, touch screens and plays videos, but STILL costs less than (including all the add-ons) the iphone AND plays DS games.
Plus when it breaks, I only have to pay $50 for Nintendo to repair it in a week (I know, they don't legally repair machines if you supe them up with all those 3rd party apps, but my friends have proven otherwise since they usually don't even look at software when you send them your hardware issued device).
And hell, the DS is a bloody children's toy. Stop trying to look so sophisticated with your nifty Phone, Apple.
On the other hand...
If you included a built in hi-def projector, projector keyboard that actually worked well, microthin mouse had global free satellite wifi, had half a terrabyte of space (plus slots for extra storage), and dropped the "i" (I'd call the the "Litmus" myself), keeping the same price, I'd be interested. In fact, I'd get it just for the projector.
But no. You gave us Video iPod + Phone + Blackberry.
Or just "Nintendo DS" + $200 + AT&T account - DS games and running.exe files.
The universe started during the first "Big Bang", an explosion occuring when Chuck Norris roundhoused Mr. T at the same time Mr. T punched Chuck Norris. The battle raging on for the next 6,000,000,000,1980 years was known as "The Great Rumble". The second big bang, when both actually hit at the same time once again, would create the phenomenon known as "the 80s".
See, we can all get along with this theory.
Bill, Steve and Linus walk into a bar...
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Linus on GIT and SCM
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Bill watered down Steve's vodka so much that Steve won't drink it. Sure he's considered an ass, but he got free booze.
Steve then ordered an Apple-tini, knowing Bill is allergic. Sure its a "gay drink", but its classy and metro.
Linus brought in his own home-made booze. Its true he can't go to every bar out there but hey, he got free and good booze without being an ass.
Honestly I don't know what this has to do with ANYTHING posted here, but it sounded really funny in my head and I didn't want to forget it (plus I gots lots of extra karma to go around).
If your not going to have a solar roof, you might as well tilt your roof towards the sun and sell it to a power company who WILL use it. It'll pay off for itself after a while. And after a long while you can replace it with your own solar cells. Or do a green-roof plan.
When it comes to residential, I prefer the Lious Kahn simplicity method: a single long hallway with rooms jetting off it. Separate private from public, setting private in the back, and seperate the garage from the building altogether as an extremely private maintenance area.
...Wow was just everquest in a new world, with a much cleaner UI, less "mess" (lots of useless crap in EQ that no "serious player" would look at twice, a lot less in WoW), graphical and user base update, the fact blizzard made it (and it is therefore cool), less classes and races with talent tree options to allow classes to branch out a bit (basically only 8 instead of 24 classes, but each class gets 3 trees and therefore function like 24 distinct classes, with options of dipping into other classes).
But, honestly, all of WoW's updates to EQ were "making it more mainstream" (removing stuff like "swimming skills" and "navigation skills", making quests with detailed detailed stories, etc...) and throwing it TONS of jokes into the world (name puns, referances in maps, etc...).
Personally, I want to see a non-instance based Dungeons and Dragons Online *not* set in Eberron (Forgotten Realms or Oriental Adventures!!!).
If these work anything like the scanners at the exits of the library, this'll probably cause our headphones to emit a ring tone, so loud it renders me still "picking at my ears" for hours afterwards. >_>
I'm not shouting Orwellian until these cameras are used to persecute people within their private homes or businesses. At this point its the government policing their own god-damned streets, which I can care less about. What was scary about 1984 and the like was the fact that rebellion became impossible with this unstoppable grid of control. Fortunately, we can still write in our homes and mail. Oh wait, the government can read our mail. Well, we can e-mai...no...uhm...pho...no...but its not like they can persecute us by labelling us some ridiculous, frivolous and nearly impossible to define...oh wait...damn there good...
You know, we can still create smoke signals in reverse binary portgeuse translated backwards in babel fish from French.
I don't care how big of a chair Ballmar rests his fat-ass on...this is ridiculous. What's next? "Open Office mentions and can save in the.doc file, an Excluse Extension (tm) of the Microsoft Extension Registration (tm) program."
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Hate to say it, since their ipod image worked so well, but do you think its time for a change, Mac?
.exe files.
Seriously, if you want to be innovative, don't just create the next evolution of the iPod (i.e. ipod with touch screen, internet and phone, as well as internet widgets most browsers can get quite easily). I know its very different from the pod...but in many ways most of my friend's newer pods are different from my own (no color vs. color, images, movies, downloadable games...).
But calling it the "iPhone" just points out that its a contuation of your evolutionary design. Except in this case, anyone who owns a blackberry and a video iPod doesn't honestly need such a thing unless they don't want two of their four pockets loaded.
Honestly, average number of pockets in a suit and dress pants or cargo pants: 7. Include a vest with the cargo pants and I can roll that up to about 14 pockets. Assuming you carry your keys and wallet, that leaves room for your napkin, i-pod, cell phone, a random 3 ft chord (lets just say ethernet), blackberry and deck of Magic: The Gathering.
We don't need all these features crammed into one gadget. But an average RAZR costs about $15+decent plan, and an average older gen video i-pod costs like $200. Why pay $500, the price of both (easily), for a SINGLE gadget? When it breaks, there goes $500. As opposed to when my phone wears out (which will, assuming the shelf life of both devices are the same, take 2x+ as long as I'm not using my phone for MP3s or movies) and I have to buy another...
Of course there's the "but you can't surf the internet on the go". Besides my laptop, I have a DS, which not only plays MP3s, uses Skype, Firefox, AIM, IRC, a word processor, touch screens and plays videos, but STILL costs less than (including all the add-ons) the iphone AND plays DS games.
Plus when it breaks, I only have to pay $50 for Nintendo to repair it in a week (I know, they don't legally repair machines if you supe them up with all those 3rd party apps, but my friends have proven otherwise since they usually don't even look at software when you send them your hardware issued device).
And hell, the DS is a bloody children's toy. Stop trying to look so sophisticated with your nifty Phone, Apple.
On the other hand...
If you included a built in hi-def projector, projector keyboard that actually worked well, microthin mouse had global free satellite wifi, had half a terrabyte of space (plus slots for extra storage), and dropped the "i" (I'd call the the "Litmus" myself), keeping the same price, I'd be interested. In fact, I'd get it just for the projector.
But no. You gave us Video iPod + Phone + Blackberry.
Or just "Nintendo DS" + $200 + AT&T account - DS games and running
Do you honestly want to go arrest the guy who owns an unliscenced AK-47?
I thought we were trying to limit our government's weapons of mass destruction suppository...
Allowing Ballmer near all the chairs in the senate, congress and white-house! This is madness!
*pulls off mask* Nice try, Bill!
The universe started during the first "Big Bang", an explosion occuring when Chuck Norris roundhoused Mr. T at the same time Mr. T punched Chuck Norris. The battle raging on for the next 6,000,000,000,1980 years was known as "The Great Rumble". The second big bang, when both actually hit at the same time once again, would create the phenomenon known as "the 80s".
See, we can all get along with this theory.
Bill watered down Steve's vodka so much that Steve won't drink it. Sure he's considered an ass, but he got free booze.
Steve then ordered an Apple-tini, knowing Bill is allergic. Sure its a "gay drink", but its classy and metro.
Linus brought in his own home-made booze. Its true he can't go to every bar out there but hey, he got free and good booze without being an ass.
Honestly I don't know what this has to do with ANYTHING posted here, but it sounded really funny in my head and I didn't want to forget it (plus I gots lots of extra karma to go around).
If your not going to have a solar roof, you might as well tilt your roof towards the sun and sell it to a power company who WILL use it. It'll pay off for itself after a while. And after a long while you can replace it with your own solar cells. Or do a green-roof plan.
When it comes to residential, I prefer the Lious Kahn simplicity method: a single long hallway with rooms jetting off it. Separate private from public, setting private in the back, and seperate the garage from the building altogether as an extremely private maintenance area.
I'm not putting high-voltage machinery next to my BRAIN. That'll cause...oh wait.
Developers! Developers! Devel...never mind.
I wondered why he bought little 1/8th scale plastic chairs...
...Wow was just everquest in a new world, with a much cleaner UI, less "mess" (lots of useless crap in EQ that no "serious player" would look at twice, a lot less in WoW), graphical and user base update, the fact blizzard made it (and it is therefore cool), less classes and races with talent tree options to allow classes to branch out a bit (basically only 8 instead of 24 classes, but each class gets 3 trees and therefore function like 24 distinct classes, with options of dipping into other classes).
But, honestly, all of WoW's updates to EQ were "making it more mainstream" (removing stuff like "swimming skills" and "navigation skills", making quests with detailed detailed stories, etc...) and throwing it TONS of jokes into the world (name puns, referances in maps, etc...).
Personally, I want to see a non-instance based Dungeons and Dragons Online *not* set in Eberron (Forgotten Realms or Oriental Adventures!!!).
Yeah, because discussing anything that took place between 1940 and 1950 is "too sensative" for such politically correct places like Slashdot.
If these work anything like the scanners at the exits of the library, this'll probably cause our headphones to emit a ring tone, so loud it renders me still "picking at my ears" for hours afterwards. >_>
Another Ewok Festival of Light special!?
Don't need a permit to burn books.
I'm not shouting Orwellian until these cameras are used to persecute people within their private homes or businesses. At this point its the government policing their own god-damned streets, which I can care less about. What was scary about 1984 and the like was the fact that rebellion became impossible with this unstoppable grid of control. Fortunately, we can still write in our homes and mail. Oh wait, the government can read our mail. Well, we can e-mai...no...uhm...pho...no...but its not like they can persecute us by labelling us some ridiculous, frivolous and nearly impossible to define...oh wait...damn there good...
You know, we can still create smoke signals in reverse binary portgeuse translated backwards in babel fish from French.
I for one welcome our new mutant fungi overlords.
Does anyone know the laws concening connecting via your DS?
This'll stop those god-damned commies...I mean terrorists.
The author of this story is all wrong! Firefox is a FREE product. Mozilla can't make money off free product. STORY FALSE!
+5 Insightful!
Except I'd rather buy 30 different cheap keyboards and hand-paint or print out my own custom keys.
I don't care how big of a chair Ballmar rests his fat-ass on...this is ridiculous. What's next? "Open Office mentions and can save in the .doc file, an Excluse Extension (tm) of the Microsoft Extension Registration (tm) program."
Password: 1...2...3...4.
The password uses a special character only accessible via hex by using a 2.
But don't worry. There is no 2.
plays games.
Does killing your karma like this give you bad real-life karma?