BusinessWeek Online: The Squeeze on Wireless

More spirited Danger discussion. Wes has some good links, especially to this EE Times article:

Danger’s Hiptop: ‘Arm’ed and dangerous

The estimated cost of goods sold for the Hiptop is well below $150, suggesting a small net profit given a $200 post-rebate hardware price via T-Mobile. But it remains to be seen whether a device like the Sidekick-aimed at a youth market but service-priced for adults-hits its target.

I paid $273 (after tax, never got my $50 rebate) for mine. And I still can’t even install my own applications on the device. Weee. Here’s a quote from last June:

“We’re not so arrogant to say that we know what all of the killer applications are going to be in the future, so we want to start with a platform that is sustainable.”

–Andy Rubin, CEO, Danger

Looks like the international community isn’t the only thing melting down: The XFree86 Fork() Saga Continues

Let the humor begin:

Hussein was baffled by the accusation that he possessed WMD. “I can understand your accusation that we violated international law by breaking the terms of surrender, even though that accusation is false. But accusing us of violating natural law by possessing weapons that violate conservation of mass? That just makes you look like an idiot.”

Or for more sobering satire, try The Onion: Bush: ‘Our Long National Nightmare Of Peace And Prosperity Is Finally Over’ (January 18, 2001), Military Promises ‘Huge Numbers’ For Gulf War II: The Vengeance (March 13, 2002)

[the NYTimes has an Op-Ed referencing the first article today.]

via /.

Presumably, someone somewhere at one point used “shock and awe” when they wanted to say Blitzkrieg…

The RAD Video Tools are great. I used this to batch rip the audio streams of Wes’ quicktime files because QuickTime Pro refused to export the audio from the MP4/AAC audio track (it just exports the headers, it seems).

Interesting comments/followup on the Raed business.

For hiptop junkies:

• HowTo’s: Get SDK running on varoius OS’s
• Getting the SDK up and running on RedHat 8.0
• Setting up the SDK On Windows XP (The Quickstart Guide)

frotz has some hiptop development stuff. bananchunks has some screen shots.

Tales from the Two Towers: Victoria U Report – description of render farm, etc. Related: AWN: The Two Towers: Face to Face With Gollum

from [tvbarn2] (Tue Mar 4 20:54:22 2003) (via jk)

A senior producer who shall remain nameless, at a major cable television news operation based in the southeastern United States which shall remain nameless, told me today with a wry confidence I found quite amusing that the “the war is scheduled for the evening of March 19th.”