- TidBITS:
CES 2013: Pepcom’s Digital Exhaustion… er, Experience http://tid.bl.it/WKW6q4
- Julio Ojeda-Zapata:
‘It’s official: 3D is dead’ http://vrge.co/U255Vi Thank GODS.
@ojezap not surprised if Hollywood is involved, as 3D is the last thing getting people into theaters.
I don’t want to admit how long I spent figuring out how to SFTP a PDF from my MacBook on my iPhone, all to avoid walking 5′ from bed.
- Kevin van Haaren:
@jeffporten logmein, but the iphone/ipad app is expensive (but file transfer feature doesn’t require pro subscription)
@kvanh The whole point is, I don’t want to get out of bed. Can LogMeIn do that? Because all I need to do is drag the damn files to Dropbox.
- Kevin van Haaren:
@jeffporten if you have the client installed on the macbook already — yes. back to mac can do that with VNC or SSH if you have them on.
- Kevin van Haaren:
@jeffporten i prepare for my lazyness in advance. have ssh and logmein on my mac already
- Andrew Laurence:
@jeffporten @kvanh or, mv [file] ~/Dropbox
@kvanh never mind. Cigarettes are on the table, so I have to schlep over there anyway. So… far….
Pressed up against a guy in a crowd whose suit is so cheap it’s literally abrading my arm.
I think the press scrum at the I’m watch booth is actively devolving.
- Chris Pepper:
Amused & perturbed to realize the dessicated feeling from my lips is due to a bag of chips an hour ago.
@reppep Make sure it wasn’t one of those bags labelled “do not eat”.
400,000 gadgets at CES, and not *one* can tear a hole in the spacetime continuum so I can nap for a few hours.
- Melody Kramer:
I’m not joking. This party is going to be Gatsby-esque. Sans the cocktails, green light, violence, flappers.
@mkramer You have nearly 3,000 followers. Given any thought to where to hold the party? Like, say, all of Fairmount Park?
@foresmac @Gartenberg Completely forgot: “disruptive” for the bingo with the free space.
- Kirk McElhearn:
Three days in York and so far everyone I have met has been incredibly friendly.
- Lex Friedman:
@mcelhearn You think that’s good, you should try the NEW York.
@lexfri @mcelhearn I think it’s more likely that York is the friendliness-suck that leaves New York so bitter.
- Kirk McElhearn:
@lexfri Been there, done that, 25 years.
- Rob Griffiths:
@mcelhearn @lexfri I’ve heard the NEW York is OK, but it’s nothing compared to the NEW York New York.
@rgriff @mcelhearn @lexfri Actually, I prefer the New New New New New New New New New New New New New New New New New York on Doctor Who.
“@TheOnion: 4 Copy Editors Killed In Ongoing AP Style, Chicago Manual Gang Violence http://onion.com/WEcpF2 ”
- Brett Kelly:
To some, casino dings and whoops may say, “come, play and win, ladies and gents!” I hear, “fart freely, nobody will hear it!”
@inkedmn We smoking gamblers find people like you when you spontaneously ignite.
“@OEDonline: OED Word of the Day: nemophilist, n.: http://oxford.ly/ZAsfqM ” Or the guy who saw the movie 67 times in theaters
- Rene Ritchie:
Pepcom. Lining up to line up.
@reneritchie Arriving fashionably late. Save me a itty bitty cake.
- Jason Perlow:
@jsnell @harrymccracken We went through a DTV transition not long ago. Unless 4K ends up in broadcast and cable, nobody is buying.
- Harry McCracken:
@jperlow @jsnell It won’t matter until there’s lots and lots of content, but I’m patient.
- Jason Snell:
@harrymccracken @jperlow Patience is the key. Over the long haul, will 4K be around? Almost certainly. But I wonder if it’s 10 years away.
- Harry McCracken:
@jsnell @jperlow I didn’t buy an HDTV until nearly 20 years after I saw my first demo. I can wait for it to be good, cheap & available.
- Jason Snell:
@harrymccracken @jperlow Back to my original point – this feels like something that’s 10 years out, not 5.
@jsnell @harrymccracken @jperlow 4K is the definite future—witness “window environments” in SF films. Affordability is the issue.
- Jason Snell:
@jeffporten @harrymccracken @jperlow The future yes, the near-term consumer-electronics future, I think not. 10 years maybe.
@jsnell @harrymccracken @jperlow I don’t disagree, but I’ve been burned too often to set a number on the timeline.
- Jason Perlow:
@jeffporten @jsnell @harrymccracken not the future for broadcast and until gigabit to the house is commoditized, pure fantasy for subscriber
- Jason Snell:
@jeffporten @harrymccracken @jperlow I hate setting numbers too, but when I look at 4K I have a hard time seeing rapid consumer update.
- Jason Perlow:
@jsnell @jeffporten @harrymccracken the infrastructure challenges alone are daunting let alone the component costs
- Jason Perlow:
@jsnell @jeffporten @harrymccracken 45MB per UNCOMPRESSED FRAME http://magazine.creativecow.net/article/4k-di-on-the-girl-with-the-dragon-tattoo …
- Jason Perlow:
@jsnell @jeffporten @harrymccracken “With 4K data, and files over 40 megabytes a frame — that’s 800 megabytes a second”
- Jason Perlow:
@jsnell @jeffporten @harrymccracken even compressed with artifacts, you’ll still need like 200MB per second. PER SECOND.
- Rob Pegoraro:
Sony brings out a prototype 56″ 4K OLED TV on stage – and it promptly BSoDs. If you’re playing the CES drinking game: chug!
@robpegoraro If that had happened at Apple, Jobs would have sent someone out behind the shed for summary execution.
- Rob Pegoraro:
@jeffporten Remember when Jobs threw a digital camera off the stage? I wonder what happened to the guy responsible for that flub.
@robpegoraro Wasn’t an Apple device, so I assume Jobs just tanked their stock a few months later.
- Tom Negrino:
I’m having one of those Defeated By Technology I Thought I Understood days.
@negrino You’d fit in perfectly at CES. The technologies are travel and eating.
- Scott Simpson:
I call it “preemie” ejaculation because that makes it adorable.
- John Siracusa:
@scottsimpson I’m not sure prematurely born infants are actually all that adorable. You should probably do a Google image search.
@siracusa @scottsimpson I was a preemie, and let me tell you, those baby pictures are ugly as sin.