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  • Faust
    kitsch killer
    • Sep 2006
    • 37852

    #16
    Re: technology

    [quote user="DHC"][quote user="Faust"]

    [quote user="ddohnggo"]i'm not a big techno geek, but i'm fucking stoked for iphone 3ggggggggggggg
    [/quote]</p>

    isn't that in the galaxy far far away?</p>

    will there be a new iphone this year? what would they change? mrs. faust wants one for her bday (god knows why), and i can get a refurb today for $250.</p>

    [/quote]</p>

    Rumor has it that AT&amp;T may subsidize $200 of the cost for a new iPhone, driving the price as low as $199 for a 3g. Hope you didn't pick up that refurbished first generation model. I'd wait it out and see if this is true.
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    [/quote]</p>

    I don't see that happening at least in first half a year. I think it's only abroad that this pricing scheme will be done (Apple will not require to hold the prices steady for the first time). Besides, I think this whole 3G think is a bit overblown. [85]</p>
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    • theetruscan
      Senior Member
      • Jan 2008
      • 2270

      #17
      Re: technology

      [quote user="Faust"]

      ast in first half a year. I think it's only abroad that this pricing scheme will be done (Apple will not require to hold the prices steady for the first time). Besides, I think this whole 3G think is a bit overblown. [85]</p>

      [/quote]</p>

      Dunno, generally second generation apple hardware works a LOT better than first gen. Probably worth the wait even if they added nothing.</p>
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      • dji
        Senior Member
        • Feb 2008
        • 3020

        #18
        Re: technology



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        if this case render is accurate then it looks like the 3G model will be quite a bit chunkier than the current model...
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        • lowrey
          ventiundici
          • Dec 2006
          • 8383

          #19
          Re: technology

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          for some reason I'm not really feeling iphones.. plus they're not even available here yet so if I'd get one from elsewhere in europe, theres no one who can fix them here if something goes wrong.</P>


          I'll probably grab this Nokia when it hits the stores soon. has GPS, wlan etc and is even smaller than the earlier equivalent which I have</P>


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          [quote user="Faust"]I don't see that happening at least in first half a year. I think it's only abroad that this pricing scheme will be done (Apple will not require to hold the prices steady for the first time). Besides, I think this whole 3G think is a bit overblown. [85][/quote]</P>


          3G phones are the only foreign ones that work in Japan :)</P>
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          • what_counts
            Senior Member
            • Mar 2008
            • 170

            #20
            Re: technology



            new blackberry, I'm considering it</p>

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            • dji
              Senior Member
              • Feb 2008
              • 3020

              #21
              Re: technology



              mike I'd only bother with a Nokia GPS phone if it comes with a proper GPS receiver and navigation software like the Nokia 6110 Navigator. I had a Nokia N95 about a year ago and absolutely hated it. featured subscription based navigation and the worst GPS receiver on the market. seriously took me at least 10 mins to get a satelite lock while outside and by the time I got a lock on I'd already worked out the directions myself. the wifi didn't have properly configurable settings either so I couldn't connect to free public networks in the CBD or at uni.
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              that said the N78 is quite a nice looking phone and as long as your not looking to it as a GPS replacement it would be good.
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              • lowrey
                ventiundici
                • Dec 2006
                • 8383

                #22
                Re: technology

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                well I actually already have software which I'm currently using on my N73 with an external nokia receiver, that one has worked fine atleast.so I'll use that software anyway, I wouldn't touch any subscription based one with a stick.</P>


                anyway, the built in gps is only a perk, if its slow Ican use theexternal one since I already have it.I'm mostly upgrading because I'm addicted to new phones and I like the way it looks [86] plus its slightly smaller than the N73</P>
                "AVANT GUARDE HIGHEST FASHION. NOW NOW this is it people, these are the brands no one fucking knows and people are like WTF. they do everything by hand in their freaking secret basement and shit."

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                • kira
                  Senior Member
                  • Mar 2008
                  • 2353

                  #23
                  Miyamoto and Disney



                  From the NY times today. This whole thing makes me a bit unsettled. But I am split on it. On the one hand I appreciate the creativity and technological aspects to this. The Wii is very cool. I watch my friend's sons play and am so amazed. But now exercising with it...Wii Fit. Now no one has to leave their homes...There are yoga tv shows and other work out shows and have been. But part of the whole thing is to have an instructor help you specifically and guide you through learning...and then to come Wii Music.
                  </p>

                  It is interesting to read the comparison of Nintendo to Disney and Miyamoto seems to be an interesting character. It is hard to believe that Mario has been around for 30yrs already. [:O]


                  May 25, 2008
                  VIDEO GAMES
                  Resistance Is Futile

                  By SETH SCHIESEL
                  IT?S O.K. to liken Shigeru Miyamoto to Walt Disney.

                  When Disney died in 1966, Mr. Miyamoto was a 14-year-old schoolteacher?s son living near Kyoto, Japan?s ancient capital. An aspiring cartoonist, he adored the classic Disney characters. When he wasn?t drawing, he made his own toys, carving wooden puppets with his grandfathers? tools or devising a car race from a spare motor, string and tin cans.

                  Even as he has become the world?s most famous and influential video-game designer ? the father of Donkey Kong, Mario, Zelda and, most recently, the Wii ? Mr. Miyamoto still approaches his work like a humble craftsman, not as the celebrity he is to gamers around the world.

                  Perched on the end of a chair in a hotel suite a few dozen stories above Midtown Manhattan, the preternaturally cherubic 55-year-old Mr. Miyamoto radiated the contentment of someone who has always wanted to make fun. And he has. As the creative mastermind at Nintendo for almost three decades, Mr. Miyamoto has unleashed mass entertainment with a global breadth, cultural endurance and financial success unsurpassed since Disney?s fabled career.

                  In the West, chances are that Mr. Miyamoto would have started his own company a long time ago. He could have made billions and established himself as a staple of entertainment celebrity. Instead, despite being royalty at Nintendo and a cult figure, he almost comes across as just another salaryman (though a particularly creative and happy one) with a wife and two school-age children at home near Kyoto. He is not tabloid fodder, and he seems to maintain a relatively nondescript lifestyle.

                  ?What?s important is that the people that I work with are also recognized and that it?s the Nintendo brand that goes forward and continues to become strong and popular,? he said by way of comparing Walt Disney?s role in the larger brand with his. ?And if people are going to consider the Nintendo brand as being on the same level as the Disney brand, that?s very flattering and makes me happy to hear,? he added, through an interpreter. (He understands spoken English well but does not speak it beyond a few phrases, a twist of considerable amusement to him given that his father taught English.)

                  Mario, the mustached Italian plumber he created almost 30 years ago, has become by some measures the planet?s most recognized fictional character, rivaled only by Mickey Mouse. As the creator of the Donkey Kong, Mario and Zelda series (which have collectively sold more than 350 million copies) and the person who ultimately oversees every Nintendo game, Mr. Miyamoto may be personally responsible for the consumption of more billions of hours of human time than anyone around. In the Time 100 online poll conducted this spring, Mr. Miyamoto was voted the most influential person in the world.

                  But it isn?t just traditional gamers who are flocking to Mr. Miyamoto?s latest creation, the Wii. Eighteen months ago, just when video games were in danger of disappearing into the niche world of fetishists, Mr. Miyamoto and Satoru Iwata, Nintendo?s chief executive, practically reinvented the industry. (Mr. Miyamoto?s full title is senior managing director and general manager of Nintendo?s entertainment analysis and development division.) Their idea was revolutionary in its simplicity: rather than create a new generation of games that would titillate hard-core players, they developed the Wii as an easy-to-use, inexpensive diversion for families (with a particular appeal to women, an audience generally immune to the pull of traditional video games). So far the Wii has sold more than 25 million units, besting the competition from Sony and Microsoft.

                  In an effort to build on this success, last week Nintendo released its new Wii Fit system in North America, a device that hopes to make doing yoga in front of a television screen almost as much fun as driving, throwing, jumping or shooting in a traditional game. Though there were no hard sales figures available as of Tuesday, there were reports of stores across the country selling out of Wii Fit.

                  In a global media culture dominated by American faces, tastes and brands, video games are Japan?s most successful cultural export. And on the strength of the Wii and the DS hand-held game system, Nintendo has become one of the most valuable companies in Japan. With a net worth of around $8 billion, Nintendo?s former chairman, Hiroshi Yamauchi, is now the richest man in Japan, according to Forbes magazine. (Nintendo does not disclose Mr. Miyamoto?s compensation, but it appears that he has not joined the ranks of the superrich.)

                  ?Without Miyamoto, Nintendo would be back making playing cards,? said Andy McNamara, editor in chief of Game Informer, the No. 1 game magazine, referring to Nintendo?s original business in 1889. ?He probably inspires 99 percent of the developers out there today. You can even say there wouldn?t be video games today if it wasn?t for Miyamoto and Nintendo. He?s the granddad of all game developers, but the funny thing is that for all of his legacy, for all of the mainstay iconic characters he?s designed and created, he is still pushing the limits with things like Wii Fit.?

                  Mr. Miyamoto graduated from the Kanazawa College of Art in 1975 and joined Nintendo two years later as a staff artist. The original Donkey Kong was a prime force in gaming?s early surge of popularity, along with arcade classics like Space Invaders, Asteroids and Pac-Man.

                  He rose quickly at the company, and his name has been synonymous with Nintendo since the 1980s, when the original Mario Bros. games helped save the industry after the collapse of Atari, maker of the first broadly popular home console. When Atari failed amid a slew of unpopular games, Nintendo rekindled faith in home gaming systems; the Nintendo Entertainment System, released in the West in 1985, became the best-selling console of its era.

                  Since then Mr. Miyamoto has been directly involved in the production of at least 70 games, including recent hits like Mario Kart Wii, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, Super Mario Galaxy and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. Mr. Miyamoto supervises about 400 people, including contractors, almost entirely in Japan. The popular new installments in classic game franchises have maintained his credibility among core gamers even as he has reached out to new audiences with mass-market products like the Wii.

                  Through all his games, his designs are marked by an accumulation of care and detail. There is nothing objective about why a goofy guy in blue overalls like Mario should appeal to so many, just as there is nothing objective in how Disney could have built a company on talking animals. Rather, the reason I stood in line at a pizzeria more than 20 years ago to play Super Mario Bros., the reason Mr. Miyamoto is almost a living god in the game world, is that his games have some ineffable lure that inspires you to drop just one more quarter (or, these days, to stay on the couch just one more hour).

                  Just as a film is not measured by the quality of its special effects, a game is not measured merely by its graphics. This concept is lost on many designers, but not on Mr. Miyamoto. And just as a film buff might prefer to watch an old black-and-white movie instead of, say, ?Iron Man,? even Mr. Miyamoto?s earliest games hold up as worthy diversions. (The story of two men battling for the world record in Donkey Kong was made into a film, ?The King of Kong,? last year.)

                  ?There are very few people in the video game industry who have managed to succeed time after time at a world-class level, and Miyamoto-san is one of them,? Graham Hopper, a Disney veteran and executive vice president and general manager of Disney Interactive Studios, said in a telephone interview. ?The level of creative success that he has achieved over a sustained period is probably unparalleled.?

                  Given that its roster of characters includes not only Mario and Donkey Kong but also Princess Peach, Zelda, Bowser and Link, it?s easy to imagine that Mr. Miyamoto designs his games around those characters.

                  The truth is exactly the opposite. According to Mr. Miyamoto, gameplay systems and mechanics have always come first, while the characters are created and deployed in the service of the overall design. That means a focus on the seemingly prosaic basic elements of game design: movement, setting, goals to accomplish and obstacles to overcome.

                  ?I feel that people like Mario and people like Link and the other characters we?ve created not for the characters themselves, but because the games they appear in are fun,? he said. ?And because people enjoy playing those games first, they come to love the characters as well.?

                  Mr. Miyamoto?s work is evolving from a reliance on invented characters and fanciful, outlandish settings like Mario?s Mushroom Kingdom or Zelda?s mythical Hyrule. With games like Nintendogs (inspired by his pet Shetland sheepdog), Wii Sports, Wii Fit and coming next, Wii Music, Mr. Miyamoto is gravitating toward everyday hobbies: pets, bowling, yoga, Hula-Hoop, music. It is as if an artist who had mastered the abstract had finally moved into realism.

                  ?I would say that over the last five years or so, the types of games I create has changed somewhat,? he said. ?Whereas before I could kind of use my own imagination to create these worlds or create these games, I would say that over the last five years I?ve had more of a tendency to take interests or topics in my life and try to draw the entertainment out of that.?

                  It has proved the perfect strategy as Nintendo reaches out to nongamers who may not care to understand why this frantic plumber keeps jumping on top of turtles, or why that gallant fellow in green has to keep rescuing the same princess over and over. At this moment, when consumers crave the ability to shape and become a part of their entertainment, whether through MySpace or ?American Idol,? the latest star in Nintendo?s stable of characters is you ? or rather Mii, the whimsical avatar Wii users create of themselves.

                  ?I see the Miis as the most recent character creation from Nintendo,? Mr. Miyamoto said. ?What?s interesting is that regardless of the user?s age, if they?re looking at a Mii, it?s their Mii. Before, when you?re playing as another character, it?s more typical of more passive entertainment, and by creating a Mii you?re becoming more a part of the entertainment experience.?

                  Nintendo is expected to release more details about Wii Music this summer, but the basic concept is that while popular music games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band allow players only to recreate canned tunes, Wii Music will try to enable users to capture the feelings of composition and improvisation.

                  Mr. Miyamoto grew up on Western music like the Beatles and the Lovin? Spoonful. He plays piano and banjo and, as a bluegrass aficionado, immediately recognized the name of Ricky Skaggs when told over dinner in Manhattan that Mr. Skaggs was scheduled to perform in town in a few days. Mr. Miyamoto even joked about extending his stay to catch the show. (He didn?t.)

                  ?We?re trying to create an experience where people are very simply able to get the feeling like maybe they?re creating music,? he said.

                  With a track record like his, it would be foolish to bet against him. When it comes to the Walt Disney of the digital generation, no one knows fun better.</p>
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                  • Diego
                    Senior Member
                    • Aug 2007
                    • 1111

                    #24
                    Re: Miyamoto and Disney



                    Ok so we got paid yesterday (finally) and ordered our RED ONE camera (4k resolution)</p>

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                    http://www.red.com/ </p>

                    will be trading it when EPIC (5k resolution) comes out. This is technology at its best.</p>

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                    • philip nod
                      Senior Member
                      • Aug 2007
                      • 5903

                      #25
                      Re: Miyamoto and Disney

                      insane. how much do these things go for? i've heard a lot about them but never seen them and what exactly do they do
                      One wonders where it will end, when everything has become gay.

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                      • Diego
                        Senior Member
                        • Aug 2007
                        • 1111

                        #26
                        Re: Miyamoto and Disney

                        These are digital cameras with s35mm sensors, they go for about 30,000usd with all the accessories one needs, including a lens adaptor so one can rent ARRI/Zeiss lenses, angeneux or whatever... if compared to ARRI's 300,000usd arricam which is the industry standard, these are very cheap. Theirs a resolution comparison on the page and some videos of Peter Jacksons' short film he did with it.

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                        • Faust
                          kitsch killer
                          • Sep 2006
                          • 37852

                          #27
                          Re: Miyamoto and Disney



                          [quote user="Diego"]These are digital cameras with s35mm sensors, they go for about 30,000usd with all the accessories one needs, including a lens adaptor so one can rent ARRI/Zeiss lenses, angeneux or whatever... if compared to ARRI's 300,000usd arricam which is the industry standard, these are very cheap. Theirs a resolution comparison on the page and some videos of Peter Jacksons' short film he did with it.[/quote]</p>

                          The Peter Jackson's short film being The Lord of the Rings, I presume? [66]</p>
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                          • Diego
                            Senior Member
                            • Aug 2007
                            • 1111

                            #28
                            Re: Miyamoto and Disney

                            No, hehehe "crossing the line"

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                            • ddohnggo
                              Senior Member
                              • Oct 2006
                              • 4477

                              #29
                              Re: technology - iphone 3g



                              july 11th can't come sooner.</p>

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                              • kira
                                Senior Member
                                • Mar 2008
                                • 2353

                                #30
                                Re: technology - iphone 3g

                                [quote user="ddohnggo"]

                                july 11th can't come sooner.</p>

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                                </p>

                                [/quote]</p>

                                and only $199 [75]</p>
                                Distraction is an obstruction of the construction.

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