I think he’s got it bad, folks.
Firebox - Doctor Who Tardis 4-Way USB Hub
Update:
Gellibaff (requires audio. really it does.)? The Brits have invented cornstarch baths, apparently. Even spelled it “baff” for ease of pronunciation for the only people who’ll think it’s a good idea.
Update (2.1):
“It’s a series“
He’s having a “nerdgasm”. Included in this morning missives:
Jobs had the Zune logo up on his slideshow, too. On fire.
Jesus this thing HAS to be incredibly expensive. It’s got a giant flipping screen, proximity sensors, an accelerometer for some reason.. 8Gbs space I think.. 2mp camera.. thing as hell.. they just pissed allover the entire cellphone industry. I mean, he just got up there and took a whiz right on their heads, laughing maniacally.
This thing is unbelievable and I haven’t even seen it in motion yet. I am floored.
I still say it’s gonna cost $2000 dollars, though.It has bluetooth AND WiFi! And GSM! And EDGE! Jesus Christ! How is that even possible!?
It’s got Safari built in. I’m gonna start tearing up.
So if I disappear for a while, assume I’m spoon-feeding him back to cognition, or something.
Priced at under $500. But I wanted a GPS mapper included.
This is what programmers call “creeping featurism”.
I see that Nokia(?) has released a mobile which is based on an earlier model and which is just a phone. Sells like hot-cakes.
Not that I am dumping on Apple. If anyone can make a success of the all-singing, all-dancing mobile PDA/Web-enabled/MP3/MP4/WiFi/GPS/doo-dad, they can.
How? Eh? Wha…?
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereon one must remain silent”. Wittgenstein.
See how it feels? Wittgenstein was sort of the anti-journalist wasn’t he? Or at least the anti-editorialist.
Wittgenstein?
The Nazi radar snatched by the Brits?
This is getting out of hand, people.
See, that’s what I’d like. Just a phone. That doesn’t. Freaking. Clip out. On you. Ever. But that can’t be had.
Although Peter showed me the videos of the UI last night, and it’s really rather swell. During the keynote, Jobs brought up Safari, opened Google maps, looked up San Francisco, chose to see area Starbucks, picked the one across the street, dialed its number, order 2000 lattes, then said “Oh sorry, I think I have the wrong number,” and hung up. Very amusing.
“Wittgenstein was sort of the anti-journalist wasn’t he?”
I hadn’t thought of him like that but, heck, that’s awfully awfully good. Gonna use it. Lots.
Here’s Wiki on Wittgenstein:
Oh, sod it, look him up yourselves, dunno how to work this. (Incidentally, how does one get to do bold and italics on this yere blog?).
There’s a line: “He puts forth the view that conceptual confusions surrounding language use are at the root of most philosophical problems”
To which one might add “political and military problems” too.
b tags and i tags. put a b between two pointy brackets, then a /b at the end of what you want bold, between two more pointy brackets. I’d demonstrate, but I’d just end up with something bold and you wouldn’t see the tags. Same with i for italics.
{b} It works! {/b}
No it doesn’t.
[b] That’s better! [/b]
No it isn’t.
“Negative expectations yield negative results. Positive expectations yield negative results.”
“Negative expectations yield negative results. Positive expectations yield negative results.”
That don’t work either, trust me.
This discussion reads like a Monty Python sketch when you come to it a few days later. Which reminds me that we don’t need Wiki when we have their Philospher’s Drinking Song. Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as sloshed as Schlegel….
I was a thinking maybe more like teh Marx fellas.
HahahahaHalf!!!!
“John Stewart Mill of his own free will on half a pint of shandy was particularly ill…”
“Socrates himself is particularly missed, a lovely little thinker but a bugger when he’s pissed*” *ie drunk in English.
If I ever study philosophy at university, it’ll be in Australia. My kind of academics. Wonder what the best drinking rhyme is for Popper?
Jesus, I wouldn’t go and study in Australia if you were to pay me for it
January 31st, 2007 at 5:28 pm
Howdy Folks. I was wondering if anyone had any details on the Eastern re-union that is being held in Moncton in 2007. Cheers, Dan
February 1st, 2007 at 11:43 am
Why Moncton? Was it a hub?
February 2nd, 2007 at 2:11 am
Went past a police box this morning and was reminded of Peter’s 4-way USB hub. Though not in so many words.