Finally! The first 10 episodes of Moose Weintraub’s Sports Half-Minute are out as individual videos! Here’s a playlist! Watch them in order!
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I bought a Sony Dash. I gave it a chance. I worked my way through the tedious process of setting it up, particularly getting it to pick up photos from my own web server… Tried out some widgets… cursed the clock, because, out of nowhere, it decided I lived in California, but not in any setting I had access to… I realized that I couldn’t listen to my in-home Icecast-based “Internet Radio Station”, and finally gave up. The Dash went back to Best Buy.
What was wrong with the Dash?
Touch screen… I can’t speak for anyone else… I mean.. Maybe I’m not “capacitive” enough to make the capacitive touch screen work with a light touch, but… I found I had to kind of mash the thing to get it to work… This is a problem, because the “easel-stand-angle-thing” doesn’t lend the Dash to being pushed around. Press on screen hard enough to get a reaction, and the thing falls over. Grr.
Touch screen again… this may, actually be a software issue, but when I press a button, I want to know, right now, that you know I pressed the button, even if it’ll take you a second or two to actually do what I want done. If I can’t have tactile feedback, I need something else… an audible click, or a simple animation or something… something that acknowledges the command.
The “Sony Layer”… The Sony Dash is basically a Chumby One, running in a “container” under the supervision of a layer of Sony software. The Sony layer has a look and feel somewhat similar to what one finds on the PSP, and the PS3… but there’s something lacking on the Dash… I don’t know if it’s that the hardware can’t live up to the dreams of the software people, or if the software was rushed out… Dunno… but this reminds me of when Sony first introduced the “VAIO” line of PCs… It was essentially an attempt to “lock in” customers, and it failed. The Dash seems to try to take something open and simple (the Chumby), slather on a gooey opaque coating of piano-black, and call it a Sony.
Oh, and no battery. Duh. Here’s a giant pallet of stupid. Sony, one of the pioneers of Lithium-ion battery technology… didn’t think to put a battery in this thing.
For $200, I’m not impressed. I’d just as soon get another iPod touch and a cheap speaker-dock. … or a real Chumby for half the price.
All the news that shouldn’t be news for May 21, 2010, including:
Freedom of Press Act
The Pope: Now with 30% more Popiness!
Miss America 2010, Rima Fakih
Dio: Dead-o.
OpposingViewpoints: FoxNews and Texas Textbooks
Sony Dash - Same bad idea, nine years later.
Elena Kagan
The end of the world.
All the news that shouldn’t be news for Friday, May 14, 2010… including:
Pope still not really admitting anything yet.
Tiny splinter gets free space ride.
Deepwater Horizon: Obviously, it’s no one’s FAULT…
Playboy’s 3D centerfold
Heidi Montag macht es schon wieeder
…and much, much more!
All the news that shouldn’t be news, including:
All the news that shouldn’t be news for April 30, 2010, including:
FoxNews outraged at voter apathy
Noah’s Ark. Again.
Stop the wind turbines… because.
Brett Michaels’ Health Scoreboard
OpposingViewpoints: Santa Clara Happy Meal Ban
Fox News: Bare and Phallic
Wait! Was that Dengar?!
Goldmen of the press got no sachs
Plus Moose Weintrab’s Sports Half-Minute and a whole bunch more!