If they join this Xbox Live, I'll be all in on this and hteir ecosystem for a long, long time.
Here's what I don't get about the writing professionally thing... and I always wonder. Where does one start? I am familiar with a few tech blogs... and they are either of the giant Ars-Engadget-Giz-IGN variety, or they're too small to pay... and those that are too small to pay, well isn't that considered amateur? Genuinely curious, it seems that those that land these jobs would be better sought on a private email listing, because to write at the top shelf of blogs, that criterion is a narrow few.
TL:DR: In order to get this job, you have to already have been doing this job for money somewhere else? I get it, but starting off then sounds impossible.
As someone who enjoyed the Watchmen movie and V for Vendetta, despite their lack of faithfulness to those amazing original texts: I suppose I'm not in favor of the canon Gods, and by default my opinion/taste is dismissed by Mr. Moore. This grants a modicum of freedom in me having an opinion of him that isn't perfect, but much less... reflexively caustic? We'll roll with that.
I'll enjoy these works and let them fill in blanks, and like Star Wars, allow the canon/non-canon works to thrill, titillate, and annoy. Somewhere there's many an Expanded Universe with an Admiral Thrawn, and I've been told to visit it. Maybe I will, maybe I won't, but it's there and it affects my enjoyment of the originals not one wit. It is sauce, and if anything has been proven about human nature, where there is cooking there is probably someone asking for ketchup.
I love mine, but eventually the bottom portion got stained with coffee that found its way into the chamber (no matter what precautions I took), and everything has this more bitter taste now. Thinking Aeropress for cleaning alone...
As much as I want to hate this, I can't. I can't think of how many toy stores my mom went to in search of that Megazord, or my sister's Beanie Baby, or my Ninja Turtles action blimp. Now that I'm older, I'm a bit embarrassed by what a little consumer tool I was, but I'm hard-pressed to find anything for these parents and kids but a bit of melancholy, for this is what occurs. Time doesn't change all things, but we'll see next time.
Why I stopped reading Manga...
1. I believe that quality is quality no matter the medium, but all I saw in Manga on store shelves was increasingly dreck. When the Simpsons came out, a lot of networks tried their hand to ride that wave. With the exception of the Critic, who else had the quality? Proliferation doesn't equate to quality.
2. Like comic books, I came to love graphic novels and compilations more. I never had the patience to wait 2 years to finish a storyline.
3. Age gets in the way. There was a time where hanging out in a Borders with a cute girl in a videogame shirt, reading everything, and watching her half speak in mangled Japanese becomes a bit tiresome (particularly when that becomes the extent of her personality). That's a young man's game, and I don't play it anymore.
4. Three anime's were incredibly popular when I started watching and reading more Japanese stories... Evangelion, Perfect Tennis, and Sailor Moon. Of those three, only two story types seem prevalent anymore, and it ain't giant god-robots....
The only way this appears to be a rational decision is if RIM's board took one look at Nokia and didn't want any part of that turbulent last year.
I do hate me some market-speak (I don't think it works anymore), so this guy is already irritating me.
On a funny note, he looks like Tim Cook played by the villain from the recent Casino Royale. You'll never unsee it now...
As someone who has sampled Grados, $500 Sony's, Meelectronics, Shures, Sennheisers, all the Beats, Klipsch Ones, B&W's... and several other audio headphones I can't be bothered with, I have to agree with this editorial.
- If you listen to music at the highest possible file quality, a pair of Grados or another pair of moderate-insane monitors will make them come alive with detail and nuance, particularly if you favor more classical and more traditional (albeit complex) rock groups.
- The Beats have a dull sound for the first couple price points, punctuated by hard hitting bass. For going to the gym and having a sense of style that fits well in the Apple ethos (pay for the quality, but also a good dose of brand recognition and pretty).
- The Beats monitors, on the other hand, are absolutely nice for lossless, jazz, classical, as long as you like your low end deep as the abyss. The absolute best I've heard Etta James' "At Last" (RIP) was through a pair of the $400 Beats, and for people of a certain income, more power to them.
- For me, I prefer something cheaper that is bass heavier but still manages to be forgiving to crappy mp3's and free streaming services with a decent amount of detail and, importantly, a good sense of high volume, the Klipsch Ones.
Personally, I say kudos to Monster and their now-defunct deal with Beats. It is less crappy than most other headphones sold mainstream, they don't look like ass, they work for most people. People fault Monster's marketing, but they never fault Grados or other brands for failing to set the world on fire.
I'd expect nothing less from a dude named Manarchy.
As someone involved in Marketing, I can definitely see the purpose of this thing; a laptop or an iPad 2 with an HDMI out adapter could mean I could make salient, beautiful demonstrations on short notice. The usage and limitations of the battery power would be very secondary to me than a sturdy frame, screen strength, antiglare, contrast, and heat tolerance. Al
This is not a tailgate TV, which I think there's definitely a market for.
This thing is so deliciously clunky yet sleek, I would swear it was German if I didn't know better.
I've heard nothing but good things about the Monster series athletic headphones: thumping bass and consistent (if muddied) translation of all levels of digital compression sounds like the right cup of tea for the gym, a place where exaltation for Mr. Armstrong is already entrenched.
This product has the feel of a well done maneuver. I may strongly dislike Monster, but hat's off to this one.
I agree with you except for the last statement. I have found that the models are rightly the same, old product, regardless of dealer.
Cruising the internet for deals, actually, seems to feed my more banal instincts for savings over quality, and as a futurist and techie I lament that trade off of price over quality. If the models are the same, then the choice becomes more fluid. My experience is that I'm charmed more easily by the prospect of deals online, at the expense of quality. Good enough becomes the "right price" and as a futurist if the matter is price then we can assign superlatives like "old tech" or the more romantic "established". If it's the future we're after, or if finicky is the name of the game, there will eventually be a price. If it's on sale, odds are it has lost the superlative "new". So, as late adopters, are we in fact disinclined to new?
My wife recently convinced me, a tech salesman and general enthusiast, that I should hold off pining for a bigger replacement of my Panasonic plasma, which at 42 inches is too small. That I should, in fact, hold off until for a bit. I could then get a bigger TV, she said, teeming with the technology and upgrades I would want but seldom fathom in the moment.
Tonight when she gets home from work, I shall risk telling her she was right.
I must now launch the unconventional and (by the aesthetic and symmetry) highly likely theory that the Cassini program was a front to launch the long-considered dead photographer Ansel Adams into space for one last shoot.
I'm relieved that this isn't being forced. Some stuff just works better in its original medium, unless it's in the hands of someone who loves it or a studio who is too greedy to let shit happen to an IP.
This reminds me when Apple made a shuffle so small and streamlined that it didn't have room for basic expectations.... like buttons.
Just because you can, Roku, doesn't mean you should. MHL, lack of ethernet... easier is better than smaller.
I sell electronics and electronics related accessories, and this green and white bastard has been the subject of many false hopes and (attempted but politely declined) bribes, the most I've seen since the first year the Wii was sold. Of the parents and grandparents, aunts and uncles that I've talked to, it comes down to "I saw a commercial", which I find fascinating since any other product or promotion eludes their attention.
It's sad because it really is a piece of shit, and there are better toys out there for the young ones, like some goddamn books or a Super Soaker. The games are as mindless (or arguably worse) than the stuff they'd find on more mainstream systems or with PC software. But it's an iPad for kids, so naturally everyone's gone insane.
I'm reading a surprising amounts of debates about the quality of XP. The only thing that we need to understand is that for databases, XP is the most you can do with certain programs and demands that company's structures are budgeted/experienced to work with.
The bigger issue, and the one I think we as nerds have a harder time grasping, is the concept of good enough. XP is good enough to keep an old machine online to look at email, youtube, and good ol fashioned internet porn. As long as those work and they can type up a document, they have no impetus to switch.
Security, stability, multimedia, even accessibility... these are words to millions of consumers mean little to next to nothing as long as they can continue with business as usual. As sad as that may sound, I remember a time when removing Bonsai Buddy was a "thing" we nerds had to do for older relatives and neighbors because the words I listed were trumped by the concept a cute funny butler monkey on your screen.
