You can still buy lots of cassette players.. Urban Outfitters sells them (*shudder*), for example. Bestbuy has a few models, etc. The Walkman may be what you're thinking of, and that's true, Sony discontinued that IIRC. But as to the consumers, I really don't know either. I'm old and I'm too tired to question what young people want these days. I swear, kids will be wanting Commodore 64s and dial-up BBSes again soon.
My band(s) has already given up any notion of making any money on digital sales or streams, not to mention CDs. We press records and cassettes these days, and do CDRs of live show recordings and that's it. No CD press runs at all. Weird how it seems we're back in 1992. (CDs basically mean they sit around in boxes in the garage, taking up space. We've sold out of every record and (recently) cassette we've produced. It's still not a huge number (like 300 or so of each.. for a local band that's not bad) and none of us can quit our day jobs, but basically one record or one cassette sale is > everything we've gotten from digital at this point).
Typical.
But then again, there's a lot of us old farts who still have a nice Vinyl collection collecting dust. Say what we will about the immediacy and portability of digital media, I get really irritated having to redownload/sync my media (especially CD and odds and ends picked up from bands on the internet) on my laptop. Yes, I can't take my vinyl with me on the go (and for that, I have my phone). but for lounging around the house on saturday afternoon, sometimes picking up an old record (or new one) has a bit of nostalgia that I can sit back and enjoy while sipping a coffee.
There's a coming anti-digital storm: Vinyl, Instant Film, cassette tapes, now we just need to see super 8 and 16 for film. Too many hacks, too many insecure sites, and people finally coming to the realization that maybe, just maybe, they shouldn't put everything they do online for anyone and everyone to see or "steal". I'm okay with this.
raises all turds, too.
Ugh, sorry, trying to type and take a call at the same time.. I meant I still prefer Chrome and Mozilla, not IE and Mozilla.
Sometimes I wonder if IE's biggest problem these days is marketing and the negative reputation they've built with older version of IE. I had to use IE recently here at work and it's not bad; certainly not the horrible, buggy, bloated POS it was in the 90s (comparatively speaking). I still prefer IE and Mozilla (plugins, etc), but if faced with a modern IE I wouldn't loathe it. So, IE isn't so bad anymore. But because it was so shitty for the longest time, I really don't want to go back to it. Perhaps this is what MS has realized: They're going to have to change the name so people won't associate the new browser with bad memories of the past...
No shit. I wish they'd put some work into links2.
HA! Let me just go ahead and write you a check...
My favorite console is still my GBA Micro.
:: shrug
And there ain't nothing wrong with that.
... gamergate is actually about ethics in quests?
I hate the way my friends' HDTVs make movies look like soap operas. I hated the last Hobbit which I saw in HFR/HD and the "look" completely ruined the film for me. The lighting used stood out like a sore thumb from the live action characters vs. the CG, the movement of the CG itself was horrible in many scenes.
And this film was no different. Ugh.
Before too long, some PHB will read through something like this and expect *all* developers to want to work for free.
Intel CPUs are not defective, they just act that way. -- Henry Spencer
