Indeed, I do. I was so jealous when someone posted from the west coast about eating crepes filled with Nutella, whipped cream and strawberries, but there was nowhere I could go for that. I was in Cincinnati yesterday and took advantage of Jungle Jim's proximity to pick up some things I can't find in town, and when I saw crepes (which I will NOT make myself), I nabbed 'em! Now I need the other three ingredients.
- MiniMage, enterRUPPted
from BuddyFeed
Reckon the comments in mutiple languages, I think the love for Nutella is a worldwide phenoma. <3 I think Nutella is the key to world peace. ;)
- Olivia Lovag
Nope. Neither the chocolate nor the hazelnut flavor seems to pop out to me, it just tastes sweet. I'd rather have the fresh ground chocolate peanut butter from Whole Foods.
- FFing Enigma
YES,yes,yes....i do and i like it even more when listening to my ipod and doors are locked,...must be a english thing to do ......nikki......^o^ -
- nikki hayes
hi, nikki ! ...... nice to meet you !! ........^_^
- keiko-san
@Ortaparmak - Since 1973>soudesu. nihonwa kyoukara "Golden-Week" ni hairimashita. demo, watashi wa shigoto desu. nichiyoubi to getsuyoubi dake oyasumi desu. doko e ittemo hito ga ookute.....
- keiko-san
Italian Restaurant de hataraite imasu. yoru dake desukedone......; p
- keiko-san
keiko-san, I fine and I'm busy at work. how about u ? : )
- Lost Abyss
@AyDin >hello!.....I did't know taht. What's so good? I tried looking on the Internet, I have little information. What is it made from hazelnuts, I guess? It seems to eat once. It also has made what countries?
- keiko-san
@ Lost Abyss >hi!.....are you busy?.....me, too!......^_^
- keiko-san
I'm home now : ) weekend rest time : )
- Lost Abyss
to ke dargire jabre mohiti hastio masaele zin das...papak...ba to hastam...to ke ba kasi ke tarside az un donya bara doori az atashe doozakhash hame jayash ra pooshande chon pooshanidan az atash kasi ke sarapa tarse va tars doshmane manteghe che manteghi bahs mikoni pas manteghi bahs kardan ba kasi ke door az mantegh hast khod eyne bi manteghie ;)
- peepoo
yes. May have to run out and get some now!
- Vicarbott
Keyko, stop rebumping same old posts. Now Nutella makes me throw up. Would you still like something that you see 3/4 times per day?
- Apostocosì (Vulvia)
Hi :) I'll write recipes with nutella a.s.a.p :P
- SanalMutfak (M)
No, it's disgusting. The worst such hazelnut cream produced, sticky, oversweet and at the same time flavorless. There are bunches of much better similar creams around, not necessarly hugely more costly: Novi cream is hugely better and still in the same price range!
- Alice Twain
Alice come on... a little spoon of Nutella could make you less ... :P
- Eta
use translate button keiko :) (I know It doesn't perfect)
- SanalMutfak (M)
@Eta, nutella is disgusting. not hazelnut creams. The point is that nutella has next to no hazelnut in, that's part of what makes it so bad. Again, try some better hazelnut creams, stuff that does not feel like sugary glue in your mouth but rather is silky with a distinct taste of toasted hazelnut. You will taste the difference.
- Alice Twain
In Italian, "Slurp" is an onomatopoeia, i.e. this word means that someone is licking him/her own lips while thinking about the goodness of a food.
- Smeerch
The Toolbar Buttons add-on for Firefox gives you lots of buttons to do stuff like that, without having to remember keyboard shortcuts. And the "reopen last closed" works on multiple closed pages, letting you access stuff you may have closed quite a few tabs ago. I keep a small block of buttons related to open/close tabs (open, reopen last closed, close all but selected, close all) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US...
- April
Row Three-ers are divided on Cars - Kurt hated it, Andrew loved it, I'm somewhere in the middle. But none of us are that excited about a sequel to it. And Lightning and Mater as spies? Really? Meh.
- Jandy
and apparently .. a lot more of Google's stuff...
- Tyler (Chacha)
Funny, I was just noticing yesterday that your sidebar still had FriendFeed current. The only thing your blog needs now is an ff icon on each post that links to the corresponding FriendFeed post.
- Bruce Lewis
It's funny to me how some people, regardless of the evidence that Apple has rarely been the first to use any technology in their products, that they've never created a new market where none existed before, think that they are an innovator. Not in 1984, not in 1989, not in 1998, not in 2001 and not now.
If Apple had never existed, a Windows based GUI would still exist, an all in one PC would still exist, the laser printer would still exist, the MP3 player would still exist, the tablet PC would still exist, the smart phone would still exist, stores that sell music downloads online would still exist. You might not like the world around you as much, but it would all still exist.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
What phone was like the iPhone before the iPhone? What PC was like the Mac before the Mac?
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
Apple's success lies not in innovation, but in successfully tapping markets better than their competitors, in successfully integrating existing technologies better than their competitors, in designing more desirable products than their competitors.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
The Blackberry was sufficiently like the iPhone before the iPhone and the Xerox prototypes that the Mac was originally based on were like the Mac. Don't forget all the stuff that Steve Jobs got out of Xerox because they didn't want it.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
The iPhone isn't sufficiently different from a Blackberry plus an NDS for anyone to say that it's a whole new creature. The market was moving that way regardless of Apple's involvement.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Innovation isn't just making something new, it's making something useable
- Johnny
from iPhone
I don't agree that Blackberries were similar. And the Xerox prototypes were not consumer PCs.
- Stephen Mack
from iPhone
Innovation is exactly making something new. That's what it means...usable isn't part of the meaning of the word.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Unless I'm mistaken, Apple was the first company to ship a consumer computer built around a mouse, the first laptop maker to move the keyboard back and have a centered trackball, the first to use a trackpad, the first to introduce IRda and WiFi into their base model laptops (IRda never took off but WiFi is standard). They were also the first to incorporate a multitouch UI into their phones. There are tons more, but that's a nice start.
- Kevin Fox
How is a Blackberry not similar? It's a smart phone, it can run apps (they had an appstore way before Apple did).
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
If either didn't exist, maybe Commodore would still be around. Or Atari would still be making computers. Or neither would be around without the Apple I/II paving the way. We got what we got.
- Rodfather
Wait... exactly what did Apple do in 1989 that was so innovative? (The others: 1984 = Mac; 1998 = iMac; 2001 = iPod, Mac OS X.)
- Julian
It's not a question of being first to use A technology, but the first to integrate several technologies into a new kind of experience. And you know that...
- The original Kevin
Apple didn't develop the mouse, nor did they develop WiFi and multitouch UI is just another way to do touch which already existed. It's like saying that the guy in the Monty Python sketch who suddenly put a tape recorder up both of his nostrils was an innovator.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Innovation is pure marketing speak that doesn't really mean anything. If you make a better product you aren't innovating, you are evolving the space...you are making it better.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Semantics. Whether they invented xyz technology first or not, Apple was the one who brought it to market with a form factor and user experience that made it take off.
- Jandy
Oh alright Alex! Get 'em! (I love a rumble!)
- Ciaoenrico
No, Johnny, lots of patents are filed every year...that's innovation, and I bet you that Apple is not the biggest patent filer in any given year. It's not semantics, Jandy, if someone is using a word wrong. That's called bad grammar.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
But everything is a derivative of something else. Most of those patents are just new ways to use existing things...
- Johnny
Jandy - So Apple are just really good at marketing, that doesn't mean they've reinvented the wheel.
- Ciaoenrico
And that's exactly why the word "innovate" is meaningless...It doesn't mean that someone is better, just that they've come up with a new way to do the same old things...so what? Use a better word. One that actually means what you think it means.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Ciaoenrico, true, but they probably suggested putting four of them on a plank of wood. Technology alone is useless without practical application
- Johnny
Sorry, Alex, but that's BS. Integrating technologies in a way they haven't been integrated before is innovation. Especially if it changes the way people think about a product category or industry. And that's way more than just marketing.
- The original Kevin
It's semantics when you clearly know what they mean by the word and are willfully refusing to either accept that communication has taken place or gently encourage learning useful distinctions when they are useful. Ciaoenrico, I didn't say they had. But I will say I had a pre-iPod MP3 player and it was crap in every way. The iPod was not crap in every way, so whether they refined or innovated, I don't really care - it was better and worthy of praise.
- Jandy
I think the point really is that what Apple brings to the market isn't significantly different than what the market has to offer - it just has that Apple-ness to it that so many Apple people love. Frankly I have to wonder what's wrong with just admitting that: You would love the iPod less if it simply was invented and produced by Dell.
- Ciaoenrico
It wouldn't have been as pretty if it had been produced by Dell. :)
- Jandy
It could have been as pretty - it likely would have been a sight less expensive too.
- Ciaoenrico
Innovation means whatever I think it means!
- Andrew C (✓)
Alex, by your definition, would power steering be innovation or evolution? I think evolution, because cars existed previously, and power steering only made them more usable.
- Bruce Lewis
So now it's not important what words actually mean, but what the user of the word really means? OK, I'll remember this the next time someone complains here about how someone is using a word wrong.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Alex, a question: If something costs $500 to make and I somehow put in place new technologies and new manufacturing techniques that allow me to produce the goods for $200, is that innovative?
- Johnny
Did you use existing technologies to do this or come up with completely new ones?
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
To get back to Alex's first assertion, Apple has frequently been the first to use a technology in their products (the aforementioned firewire, WiFi, etc.), and even if they weren't innovation doesn't cease once someone's put a thing into another thing. Things evolve and innovation is almost always an evolutionary process. Try to name a thing that was invented or improved upon in the last 50 years that wasn't contingent on another previously invented thing.
- Kevin Fox
lol. I'm just saying that you're being awfully prescriptive on a word choice issue that isn't really a descriptive problem. And I think the word you're being prescriptive about doesn't have as firm a definition as you want it to have. Very similar to the word "original," and I have issues with discussions about "originality" for the same reason.
- Jandy
Because obviously, when Henry Ford (or whoever it was that actually did it, because I bet he took the idea from somewhere else) created the assembly line, that hadn't been done before...that was true innovation used to great success.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
So if Apple used new technologies and materials to make something stronger, cheaper, thinner and lighter?
- Johnny
Much much higher bar for innovation these days since so much more has been done in the 100 years since then.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Did Apple develop these technologies or just use them?
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
An assembly line is just workers assembling things, only rearranged. "Completely new" vs "new use of things that already exist" is subjective. EDIT: Is my comment original, or is it merely derivative of what Jandy said?
- Bruce Lewis
You're wrong, Alex. The Winchester company developed rifles built on tight tolerances such that they could use interchangeable parts, rather than parts built specifically to fit each rifle. In so doing they implemented most, but not all, of the traits that make an assembly line what it was. Ford was a huge success so it's easy to point through the fog of history and say 'That's the guy who invented the thing!' but that doesn't make it so. He innovated by improving an existing system.
- Kevin Fox
Funded research. Commissioned machines to work with new materials. They had a big hand in it, yes
- Johnny
Alex, you're changing your thesis midstream. Are you asserting Apple doesn't develop things, or are you asserting that it isn't the first to use them?
- Kevin Fox
Shockingly, you contradict yourself, Alex. Henry Ford didn't invent the internal combustion engine. Or the wheel. Or even the concept of mass production (despite popular wisdom to the contrary). So, by your logic, he couldn't have been an innovator.
- The original Kevin
Alex is entirely consistent. His thesis is: Apple is just a marketing company. He is, of course, incorrect.
- The original Kevin
At least he's consistently incorrect. (I kid because I love. To kid.)
- Kevin Fox
According to Chris Brogan, marketing has four parts: product, price, place, promotion. With that definition, you could say Apple is just a marketing company that puts a lot of emphasis on the "product" part of it.
- Bruce Lewis
Except that you didn't read what I wrote, Kevin, so you are just looking for reasons now to say I'm wrong...have fun with that.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
And I'm not changing anything...I'm responding to questions that Johnny asked with further questions and musings.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Johnny, give me an example of what you mean by Apple funded a technology to make their phones lighter?
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Although some would argue that the way that Judaism was packaged with Christianity along with the various pagan rituals was in fact very innovative...and that the Romans then presented everyone with a package that was an overall better experience.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Alex, my point exactly. The way Apple takes clunky tech and brings it to market is innovative. Uh, which does not mean I think Judaism is clunky, just that all innovation is rooted in something extant.
- Your Neighbor Steve
Alex, have you ever seen Patently Apple? http://www.patentlyapple.com/ It's a whole blog just dedicated to Apple patent filings. I actually think that Apple has been innovative in a lot of ways not relating to patents, but clearly you are playing semantic games with the word.
- Jason Griffey
I think in the mobile arena it's especially clear that they have been innovators, at least in the sense that they have turned a segment upside down, used a number of striking new features, and ended up with every single major rival rushing headlong to copy them. Before the iPhone, nobody designed a smartphone that looked anything like the iPhone. Nobody (significant) came out with a...
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- Patrick Jordan
Alex, let me throw this into the mix - is there any large company that has truly been innovative? Microsoft didn't invent operating systems or word processors or browsers. Neither IBM nor Apple invented personal computers. Lotus didn't invent the spreadsheet. In fact, of all the companies that I can think of offhand, IBM is probably the only one who has been truly innovative, and...
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- John E. Bredehoft
"66 more comments" tl;dr, but Apple nicely integrated their own and many other innovations into some things people ACTUALLY WANT TO USE.
- Tinfoil 2.0
Alex, would you allow that you can use the term "innovative" in the sentence "an innovative way to use or combine existing materials", or would you say that's a total misuse of the word? I would honestly tend to use it ONLY that way - if I meant someone was making something from scratch, I would use "invent" or "create" rather than "innovate."
- Jandy
60 percent of Apple’s sales are from products that did not exist three years ago [http://www.asymco.com/2010...] If that's not rapid-fire product and market innovation, I don't know what is. Apple never stands still.
- Tinfoil 2.0
@LogEx - the iPad, iPhone, etc. didn't exist 3 years ago, but they did exist in other iterations from other companies. Apple figured out how to compete in each of these categories (tablet, smart phone, mp3 player) in a way that took off, which is obviously admirable, but as Alex said - they didn't create the category in the first place.
- amygeek
*cough* innovative: "to introduce as or as if new" (m-w.com). by that definition, apple is *incredibly* "innovative." what they're not --if we count the number of patent filings -- is incredibly *inventive.* </grammar check>. because apple excels at making existing tech sexy, they both *innovate* with their product design and *evolve* these existing tools into more pleasurable devices....
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- tiffany
Even though I'm an Apple fanboy, I'd be the first to agree that, while Apple does innovate, they don't invent. About the only thing they've deployed that doesn't have a direct precursor is iTMS
- Victor Ganata
from iPhone
What mopey said. I'd make the distinction this way: Samsung is often derivative. They excel at taking what someone else has done and making a version that does what that thing does pretty well (but probably more affordably -- see the Galaxy phone and the Galaxy tablet). Apple is innovative. They completely remake known experiences so that they feel wholly new. Far beyond what was thought possible. Technicolor didn't invent movies but they sure as hell did innovate when they added color to them.
- Jason Toney
What's funny about that is that Apple wouldn't be able to make most of their displays without the work that Samsung has done in the LCD/LED space. A lot of the innovations that Apple packages in to its products were developed by someone else.
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
So given that paradigm, Alex, what contemporary technology company "innovates" to your definition without using the benefits of someone else's work?
- Jason Toney
The answer to that is pretty much nobody...but we've already gotten past my incorrect use of the term innovate :)
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
So is your gripe that they market innovation better than everybody else? :-)
- Jason Toney
Can we say Apple are really freakin good renovators???
- Patrick Jordan
I don't have a gripe with them at all...I'm all out of gripe. :) We can say that Apple is kicking the ass out of multiple markets and go have a drink...how about that?
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
Oh, yeah - I'd vote for that. Now we can argue about best beers or scotches or ... :)
- Patrick Jordan
I can tell you one thing for sure: I'm not an inventor or an innovator when it comes to drinks. Or a fan of light beers.
- Patrick Jordan
But they invented Letterpress! I watched it on the Keynote just now!
- Kevin Fox
aa evet ben arakladim bunu, bundan onceki ff temam da bu fotografti, sizin olduguna dikkat etmemisim, elinize saglik, bayiliyorum tumuyle :)
- Eda Demir
sorun değil blog ff vs kullanımı kastetmemiştim... ticari işler de kullanıyorlar eda, imzayı bile silip kendileri çekmiş gibi basıyorlar vs.. bu gönderme onlaraydı :) sağol ems
- Serkan™
I'm not sure how it works. They must be tracking where you are looking in relation to where the DSi is. Do you have to wear something or are they tracking your eye movements using a camera?
- Benjamin Golub
from Bookmarklet
That looks like it might be a sensor in the middle. I know they say no glasses but I wonder if you need to wear a head tracking device, a bit like what Johnny Chung Lee did with the Wii.
- Tony Ruscoe
In this video there was no eye/head/camera movement - it looked like they might have just been using an accelerometer to detect rotation of the device. They're also reportedly using a "parallax barrier" to deliver different images to each eye, but that effect wouldn't show up in a youtube video (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004...).
- Ben Darnell
Actually, I think that video is of a game for current-generation DSi hardware, released March 3 in Japan. http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ds... I don't there are any pictures or video of the new 3d hardware yet.
- Ben Darnell
Unless you assume all users are going to be a certain distance away from the device don't you still need to know where the head is?
- Benjamin Golub
You don't need to know the distance for the accelerometer tricks we're seeing in this video. The "parallax barrier" does, but I'm not sure how precise it needs to be.
- Ben Darnell
I figure the camera can detect sway of the primary object in front of it, whether it's a camera or a person. Pocket cameras have face and object detection in software down pretty solid. It'll break down with multiple users, but it should work reasonably well with just one.
- Kevin Fox