+ Tue, October 26

Them White Music Things

There was a time when iPod news was the exclusive stuff of geeks and wide-eyed Apple cultists. That was three years and three days ago. I probably saw more than 15 of the little guys today going to only two classes. Rich dorks no more, we’re talking Pretty Ms. ΔΔΔ-butt here.

Of course today’s announcement of the iPod Photo has my knickers all knotted. 60GB, 65,000 colors on the screen, 15 hours of battery life – what’s not to love? The price. Well yes, there’s the price which is the highest ever, but we’re talking about the granddaddy of all iPods here. My prediction is that the fifth generation will see the iPod and iPod Photo roll back into one product. Color screens across the line, maxing out at the traditional high price point of $499. We shall see.

As for today’s announcement, nickd and I had a little conversation.

Phil: Apple
nickd: WHITE STRIPES EDITION
nickd: INTERPOL EDITION
nickd: TURN ON THE BACKLIGHTS

nickd: wow
nickd: sony really takes it up the ass again, don’t they
nickd: did you see that model they released yesterday?
Phil: Yeah, I read
nickd: they had to release the ipod killer again because people realized it wouldn’t play mp3s :p
nickd: and it managed to suck even more

Phil: Composite video and stereo audio in a mini-jack
nickd: …
Phil: jpg, bmp, gif, tiff and png
nickd: NO TARGA???????
Phil: NO EPS EITHER
nickd: NO MICROGRAFX DESIGNER; TRAVESTY

Phil: Apple - iPod Photo - Sync Your Photos
nickd: good lord
Phil: Pretty pics there too
Phil: And the new dock
Phil: (with s-video on it also)
Phil: Where’s the toaster attachment?
Phil: Or the kitchen sink
nickd: NICE DOCK
Phil: IT DOES NOT HAVE A KITCHEN SINK
nickd: IT ONLY HAS A BATHROOM SINK
nickd: INSUFFICIENCY

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1 → Evan – (Oct 27 2004, 2:25 PM)

I know I’ll be probably one of a select group that got it, but I like “Normalized Data is for Sissies”.
It’s the same thing they keep telling us in 281: we don’t really care how much memory your data structures use, cause memory is HUGE and cheap. When you’ve got 1GB, 2GB, 4GB or more RAM in servers, who cares? It’s TIME that’s important; gotta keep track of the big-Ohs on everything that you write…

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