GuyRiley - Slashdot User

Comment Is it cost? (Score 1) 315

by GuyRiley on Monday February 19, 2024 @10:31AM (#64251166) Attached to: Why Are California's EV Sales Dropping?

Here's what I think, EVs are still too expensive relative to utility you get from them. Look at the Ford Lightning. It was announced as a $40k truck. Well, it turns out that $40k is actually $58k, with most models actually for sale pushing into the $70k range.

Comment Re:Foreman conflicted interests? (Score 5, Interesting) 506

by GuyRiley on Sunday August 26, 2012 @11:34AM (#41129423) Attached to: Apple v. Samsung Jurors Speak, Skipped Prior Art For "Bogging Us Down"

So.... this guy patented putting a wireless keyboard and SD card slot on a cable box? Wow, no wonder things shook out the way they did.

Comment A more important question... (Score 1) 241

by GuyRiley on Sunday June 03, 2012 @08:31PM (#40204841) Attached to: First Steps With the Raspberry Pi

As a resident of the USA, how can I get one of these things? Everything I've seen up to this point just talks about how to order one if you're in the UK. Are there no other options apart from paying to have one shipped internationally?

Comment Re:Reporting from Florida... (Score 0) 614

by GuyRiley on Tuesday August 23, 2011 @02:48PM (#37182314) Attached to: 5.8 Earthquake Hits East Coast of the US

Thank goodness for Slashdot's comment moderation system, now I don't have to read the thousands of "felt it" me-too posts that are rapidly incoming.

Comment Google Sites (Score 1) 545

by GuyRiley on Monday June 13, 2011 @11:30PM (#36432228) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Web Site Editing Software For the Long Haul?

If you were comfortable managing things with iWeb, why not check out Google Sites? It's basically the same thing, only in the Google universe instead of the Apple one, and it's free. You can choose from a ton of pre-built templates just like iWeb, or you can code your own pages if you ever decide you would like to do that. It's pretty widely used so I think it's extremely unlikely that Google will discontinue support for it anytime in the forseeable future.

Comment Re:Thats (Score 1) 472

by GuyRiley on Saturday April 16, 2011 @02:09PM (#35841382) Attached to: Why Google Should Buy the Music Industry

What does Google know about entertainment promoting? That's what production is now; it isn't just as easy as putting up a ton of music on YouTube, 90% of music promotion is telling people what to like, and Google has shown very little skill at consumer marketing or trendsetting; just because they know how to get millions of people to use free stuff doesn't mean they can figure out how to sell people coolness, hipness or identity. You suggested they market music, and "selling cool" is what marketing music is.

This sounds like a job for Apple!

Comment Re:don't forget squeezebox (Score 1) 139

by GuyRiley on Sunday May 09, 2010 @02:02PM (#32148344) Attached to: When Internet Radios Get Affordable

This post is either one of the most amazing parodies of Slashdot stereotypes ever put together, or very, very sad...

Comment Re:Whoa! (Score 1) 427

by GuyRiley on Tuesday August 18, 2009 @09:05PM (#29113563) Attached to: Sony Announces PS3 Slim, Price Cut, Improvements To Home

I'm going to join the many here in announcing that I would be ready to buy if they included PS2 backward compatibility in that $300 package. Some of the greatest games ever made were for PS2 (Final Fantasy X)

I don't have the room to keep every generation of each console around. When I can play my old games upscaled to HD with wireless controllers will be when the PS3 replaces my old fat PS2 next to the 360.

Comment Re:"protect the interests of customers" (Score 1) 403

by GuyRiley on Friday May 08, 2009 @11:55PM (#27885225) Attached to: Windows 7 Anti-Piracy Plans

You're missing the point here. The reason people don't have a problem with consoles is that the DRM isn't intrusive. You buy the games, you play the games. There's no internet connection required for activation, no hoops you have to jump through if you want to play your game on a friend's console, etc.

Apple Sets Tune for Pricing of Song Downloads 396

Posted by samzenpus on Monday May 01, 2006 @08:42PM from the pink-lady-serenade dept.

PygmySurfer writes "Apple Computer on Monday revealed it had renewed contracts with the four largest record companies to sell songs through its iTunes digital store at 99 cents each. The agreements came after months of bargaining, and were a defeat for music companies that had been pushing for a variable pricing model."

Comment Re:Actually it's the integration... (Score 1) 571

by GuyRiley on Wednesday April 19, 2006 @01:34AM (#15155082) Attached to: Dvorak Avocates Open Sourcing OS X

I don't think that this laptop lid / sleep mode integration argument is a valid point anymore, if it ever really was. I've had a Sony Vaio since '98 that has terrific power management capabilities, and can easily sleep, hibernate, or power down simply by closing the lid. Now the battery on that Vaio doesn't hold a charge today, but I don't think that's really relevant since it is at least 8 years old.

RICO Suit Filed Against Skype Founders 155

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Sunday March 26, 2006 @01:08PM from the jealous-of-success dept.

Stitch_Surfs writes "Defendant Skype Technologies S A, Niklas Zennstrom, Janus Friis, Kazaa, Bluemoon Ou and a slew of others have been named in a Rico Suit Filed by StreamCast Networks, of Houston, Texas. StreamCast is the company credited with the development of the Peer to Peer Technology called Morpheus. From the little information the courts have released, StreamCast is claiming that the group engaged in corrupt business practices."

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