Man, I think I'm in love. Yeah, this is ultra-geeky, super-dorky, and quite-a-bit-nerdy, but, man, this is just awesome. Somebody has created the modern-day equivalent to a padd from Star Trek with the Oqo. This micro-computer runs Windows XP and most applications. It's essentially a laptop that is about the size of a quarter of a piece of paper, and just under an inch thick; we're talking roughly Ipod size here. It has a 1 gigahertz processor, 256 megs of RAM, a 20 gig hard drive, built-in microphone, a thumb keyboard, and on and on. It costs just shy of two grand, which, considering how frickin' awesome this thing is, is a hell of a deal. It won't play hardcore games, but that's not really the idea. This is essentially the mother of all PDAs. It has wireless and Bluetooth support, and a video on the site shows some actual occupation related applications, like doctors filing charts and diagnosing patients with it at bedside. Yes, I'd use it to watch videos, but I'm sure I'd use if for other things, as well. The site also says that the hard drive heads will automatically stop and protect themselves if the device registers that it is freefalling. The battery is only ranked for 3 hours of life, but if it's smart and they do what Creative did with their Zen Micro, by plugging it into the wall, it should charge the battery and work at the same time. Man, this is just friggin' awesome.
Also, I found (well, someone on digg.com found ) this opinion article/blog entry about whether bootlegging and pirating really costs the recording and movie industries anything. The man has some good points about whether or not people would actually have gone out and bought the CD in the first place if downloading hadn't been an option. It also gave him some "street-cred" when he pointed out that he had written several books that were currently on the net. It's a pretty smart article that makes some good points.
God, I hate work.
And new people.
And airhead blondes.
With really nice legs.
But who curse like a sailor while watching a college football game at work.
Yeah, there's a story that'll be told later tonight, I'm sure.
Ah, Song of the Post time. Last time's SotP was Jimmy Buffett's cold-weather-drive-me-insane song Boat Drinks. Buffett has to deal with always being thought of as "The Margaritaville Guy," which was made fun of in Broken Lizard's Club Dread as Bill Paxton's character claimed that a "Son of a son of a bitch" stole his hit song, "Pina Colata Town," or some nonsense like that. Anyway, Boat Drinks is the story of a man stuck in a place he desperately wants to leave and goes a little crazy while there. It's a fun song that adds to Buffett's light-hearted image, and it's a song that I think is far better than Margaritaville.
Song of the Post: "Now if I appear to be carefree, / It's only to camouflage my sadness, / And honey to shield my pride I try / To cover this hurt with a show of gladness. / But don't let my show convince you / That I've been happy since you / Decided to go."
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holycrapiwantit! that is the coolest thing ever! digg also had a link to a new 22mp camera that costs a mere $27,000. ouch...
you checked out reader2.com?
Yeah, I told my parents last night about the Oqo and that if they wanted to get it for me, it would count for two Christmases, two birthdays, my graduate graduation present, a retro-undergrad graduation present, a way-retro-high-school graduation present, and I'd turn Jewish just so they could count it has a Hanukkah present. If they got both sets of grandparents in on it, they'd actually save a lot of money in the long run. No go. Bah.
I saw the 22 Megapixel this morning. For that many megs, you need the built-in hard drive. Unfortunately, the hard drive makes it extra bulky and doesn't seem very handy. It's just like that Oqo, though: if I wait and try and save up $2000 for it, by the time I get that much saved, they'll be a lot cheaper and a lot more powerful. Of course, it'll take a hell of a long time for that camera to come down to anything near reasonable.
I looked into reader2 and signed up: http://reader2.com/finaljump. I only had time to enter a few books the other day. I'll probably add to it soon.
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