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Entrepreneur's Journal: Cutting costs without killing your company {BloggingStocks}
Aug 2nd 2009 8:32PM Agreed with Keith. Our company slashed costs by relocating to a cheaper area, but farther commute for all employees. Then they cut direct deposit, dropped expense accounts, then made paycuts. All of the cost-cutting came at a direct expense to the employees, instead of being a benefit to them.
Guess what? We all left.
Lexus reportedly aiming to please younger generation, compete with entry-level BMWs {Autoblog}
Jul 13th 2009 3:28PM Actually, I got mine at 26, so they did a good job hitting the demo. When the IS was first introduced, I was hooked. I grabbed the first IS350 specifically because I liked this new direction of Lexus, and it wasn't the all-too-common BMW 3-series that everyone seems to get. It's a fantastic car, and a great start for what they are trying to achieve.
They need to address the total-cost-of-ownership, however. Service for this car is ridiculous. I have no issue with $700-$800/mo car payments, but the routine service, brakes, tires etc. are a real pain in the butt.
Apple's glossy screens will 'mess you up,' University report warns {Engadget}
Jun 16th 2009 4:47PM Agreed Krische,
Manufacturers (not just Apple) need to STOP this glossy-screen nonsense. It is absolutely ridiculous. Televisions, laptops, and monitors from all manufacturers have been getting the glossy treatment lately and it needs to stop. It serves no purpose other than making the item look sleek and shiny.
Usability is completely shot unless you sit in absolute darkness. And that's not realistic. These items go in our homes, not in our darkrooms.
Are you listening manufacturers? You know who you are!
Bargain hunters make Vizio LCDs most popular in US -- for now {Engadget}
May 8th 2009 9:42AM I like my sub-par TV. It goes well with my sub-par Comcast cable service and all the wonderful compression they put on the "HD" picture. I'd be pretty mad buying a high-quality screen and having to see that mess in even greater detail.
Sarcastic? Sorta. But seriously, most people buy them because *most* people have cable TV and not BluRay/PS3/360. It just isn't worth it to buy high-end yet.
The content hasn't caught up to the display devices yet.
Even most BluRay titles shown on a high-contrast 1080p high-quality display look aweful. The film grain and other noise/artifacts from the source film show up much more vividly. I watched IronMan in BluRay on a super high-end TV, and it looked worse. All of the special effects became blatantly obvious with that clarity. Deep blacks weren't black, they were grainy and fuzzy. Thats from the source.
It's weird, I know, but a better TV can be a frustrating experience right now.
Eye-Fi's 4GB WiFi Video cards now with more options for Internet regret {Engadget}
May 5th 2009 5:29PM I'm not sure I understand the value of the geotagging feature. The site says the card senses nearby Wi-Fi networks and uses some database of those networks to determine your location. How could this be useful at all? Wi-Fi networks aren't THAT prevalent. It's a nice start, but I don't imagine the success-rate of getting geotag info on photos is very high.
I wonder if GPS receivers can get shrunk down small enough to fit in an SD - that seems more the way things should go.
Or am I missing how this works?
BlackBerry Curve 83XX overtakes iPhone 3G in US smartphone rankings {Engadget}
May 4th 2009 3:10PM Let me describe my experience with the device I'm using and you guess which one it is? Oh, and I should mention - I'm not using it in "a corporate stuffy environment" either. I'm a pretty creative person too.
I have full, seamless, OTA synchro of my email, contacts, calendar, tasks, and notes. I hammer out hundreds of emails and/or SMS text a week. And quickly too. Typing is nice and easy. IM? how bout AIM and Windows Live Messenger. I can open office files, PDFs pictures, etc. Did I mention real-time? Before I hit the road, I fire up my local traffic radio station and listen to the news / traffic. I can also jump on Pandora or Slacker and browse some tunes and see what's new. Cache them to the mem card and listen later. Yeah, there are apps for that...
I snap photos all the time, and those go in real-time to my Google Picasa web album, and to my RSS feed on my desktop. Run out of space? Pop in a new mem card, or get bigger one. there's an app for that...
YouTube videos? check. Surf the web in a real browser and see it how its meant to look? check. VNC back to my home computer and make sure my torrents are still downloading. check.
Games? dont get me started. huge time wasters. But yeah, apps for that too.
Can you guess? I'll give a clue, it looks a lot like the picture in the OP.
Panasonic set to unveil powerline networking prototypes aplenty at CES {Engadget}
Dec 29th 2008 2:41PM I've used NetGear's powerline networking (the higher end model), and it wasn't the greatest experience. Their product is probably very good, and Panasonic's will be decent, but they are all at the mercy of your wiring. In an older house with not-the-greatest-wiring, the latency was terrible, and the overall speed couldn't compete with wifi. The run the circuit makes can also have a huge impact on the performance. I even got certain lights in the house randomly blinking on and off when the connections were being used!
Livedrive provides unlimited online storage {Download Squad}
Dec 24th 2008 8:09PM Read the Terms of Service carefully. The first clause makes this service highly suspect:
quote:
"You may use Livedrive for lawful purposes only. Livedrive may remove any material for which you are not an authorised user of the material's copyright without notice."
What exactly does this mean? How can they distinguish 'lawful' backups of movies, music, or even application installers vs. 'unlawful' ones? This defeats the point of a safe, secure backup if they can arbitrarily decide to delete your data.
As a paying customer I would never accept this. In fairness, I have emailed them for clarification on the clause.
Lux Tip: Drive a Luxury Car for Less {Luxist}
Oct 21st 2008 4:49PM I don't know about that. I think it's better to define which class of car you can afford in the fully loaded, maxed-out version of that car. If it's a Civic, so be it. Get the best Civic they make, and be proud. Why suffer with a low-end BMW with no options and an anemic engine, just to say you have a BMW? Especially when there are far better "loaded" cars for less. Seems kinda poseur-ish, doesn't it?
D-Link updates DNS-323 NAS unit with BitTorrent client {Engadget}
Jun 23rd 2008 10:29PM But the firmware came out on May 13th. This isn't really new, is it?
