No, not Microsoft, MemoryStick. As in, were you aware that MemoryStick and MemoryStick Pro are (outwardly) physically identical while being incompatible? I knew about the differences between MemoryStick and MemoryStick Duo and MemoryStick Micro, and I knew that Pro offered a quicker data transfer rate, but I figured that it would degrade gracefully, like USB 2.0 devices fall back to USB 1.1. Of course, it doesn’t. So now I am stuck with a 512 MB MemoryStick Pro with no camera to go with it. :( I think my mom has decided to buy me a new Sony camera now though, so this cloud has a pretty decent consumerist silver lining. The old Sony camera is 3-4 years old anyway.
This sure is a good example of why Sony fails at formats though. Seriously: BetaMax, MiniDisc, MemoryStick, UMD — none of these have really caught on. Makes you wonder about the future of Blu-Ray, and consequently the ($600!!!) PS3. I sure won’t be buying one of those, at least not until/unless Blu-Ray establishes itself as the dominant next-gen optical media, with a price tag like that. I still love Sony’s products on the whole, but their (semi-)proprietary formats sure haven’t been profitable.
Monthly Archive for May, 2006
I got a Google Analytics invitation yesterday. So now it’s operating on all 3 of my current websites. It has also revealed that seriously nobody reads this blog. Of course, it’s no longer linked to on the front page, so that’s okay. It wouldn’t hurt the business section of the site to get some hits though. The tools it offers are pretty awesome, especially compared to any other free site statistics offerings I’ve seen. Analytics provides a map of visiotrs a la Frappr, although not in quite as nice a fashion. I only have one day of data to work with, but I imagine that this will be very helpful in the future for improving and creating new websites.
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