Sony Fixes Flubbed Dash Download (sony.com) 39
New submitter FourG writes: Not much fanfare (which is to be expected given the niche of the device now) but it looks like Sony posted a fix for the much maligned "can't download dashboard" error. It requires a USB key and can't be done over-the-air. My Dash required a factor reset afterward before it successfully downloaded the dashboard, but YMMV...
I have no idea... (Score:5, Insightful)
I have no idea what the summary is talking about.
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It's talking about a sony bug that got fixed but needs some sort of reset.
I hope you have an idea now. If you ever figure out more about it, let me know too. I'm still lost to what they are talking about.
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No wonder you can't download that over the air, I never saw a Sony cassette player with networking built in! (cough)
In all seriousness, it looks like this is a follow-up to an earlier story in which owners of devices based around DASH (Sony's me-too competitor to Chumby) had problems caused by Sony's servers. I was actually surpris
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Must we google everything in the summary? WTF good is the summary if it doesn't, you know, sum up the story in a comprehensible fashion?
The summary probably should have mentioned it's an addon story, and maybe even a little bit about the dashboard, but you have to be careful not to let it grow too large. What's the point of the summary if it's as long as the article?
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Must we google everything in the summary? WTF good is the summary if it doesn't, you know, sum up the story in a comprehensible fashion?
The summary probably should have mentioned it's an addon story, and maybe even a little bit about the dashboard, but you have to be careful not to let it grow too large. What's the point of the summary if it's as long as the article?
Inserting "...Sony's wifi tablet-without-that-annoying-battery-thing that came out in 2010..." into TFS would have made it "too large"?
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Must we google everything in the summary? WTF good is the summary if it doesn't, you know, sum up the story in a comprehensible fashion?
The summary probably should have mentioned it's an addon story, and maybe even a little bit about the dashboard, but you have to be careful not to let it grow too large. What's the point of the summary if it's as long as the article?
Inserting "...Sony's wifi tablet-without-that-annoying-battery-thing that came out in 2010..." into TFS would have made it "too large"?
No, but I'm a little weary of people advocating for stuff like this. [slashdot.org] Reading the article has never been a bad thing, although you're right, I concede that there should be a little bit more here.
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Just to be clear, I never advocated for that, nor for Bennett's attempts in general to turn Slashdot into his personal blog.
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It's an Internet appliance glued to a cushion that was to be the next big thing several years back. (Er... okay, so that probably sounds even more confusing than before. Just click the Wikipedia article link...!)
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Sorry, I guess I'd assumed that most people here would have heard of the Chumby. [wikipedia.org]
You know the old saying that starts with "when you assume..."?
I'm not sure what the best solution is - adding links to specific words in the summary, adding some sort of footnotes, ..? But it's definitely not the best idea to assume the broader audience is familiar with some very niche product you happen to be interested in. I know when I saw "Dash", my first thought was that Sony had somehow messed up Amazon's silly "order toilet paper with the press of a button" thing - and I had never heard of Chumby eit
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You know the old saying that starts with "when you assume..."?
Yes, I'm aware of every smug teacher's favourite cliche.
(You know what Voltaire said about witty sayings?)
Fact of the matter is that we assume things all the time- mostly without even thinking about it. We'd never get things done if we didn't. Can you imagine how totally unreadable Slashdot would be if it wasn't able to make even the most basic assumptions about what its audience did and didn't know?
As I said, the Chumby was one of the hot devices du jour several years back, and the Slashdot audience
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My parents have one. The story is, on March 1st, every single one of these things broke, worldwide. They threw some kind of error about not being able to "download a dashboard" and wouldn't do anything but show that error. Apparently, three weeks later, now there's a complicated fix.
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Description, editing (Score:5, Informative)
The Dash appears to be a much maligned [amazon.com] alarm clock tablet by Sony. I guess this fix addresses some of the issues owners have had and complained about.
I personally find the target audience for this device hard to envision. I guess it's for people that aren't satisfied with a simple alarm clock and either don't want to bring a tablet to bed or don't own one. No thank you.
Finally, a note about editing. If a script can do a better job editing, maybe you shouldn't be an editor. I really don't think this summary was looked at by a person, in which case: Whiplash, please hire developers to make better editing scripts. The summaries should contain information about the device, why we might want to care, and the issue with the device--none of which show up in this summary.
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I agree. I have one (well, I bought it for my wife, but she doesn't really use it much) and I have it cycle through news articles while I get dressed in the mornings.
I just wish they'd release the code so people can play with it outside of their service since Sony doesn't really care much about the device any more. Let me throw a nice Angular dashboard client on it that will hit more than the few widgets that are developed for it.
Some context (Score:2)
The product page for the Sony Dash [sony.com] does not really shed any more light on what it is, but the pictures indicate it is a clunky tablet-like device which you can be stood on a table against a backdrop of different home furnishings, mostly in soft focus.
A Sony press release from 2010 [sony.com] says that:
Sony today announced that its new Dash, a Wi-Fi touch screen device that pushes real-time, personalized Internet content to users in their homes or offices ...
Featuring a 7-inch color touch screen, Dash uses your existing wireless internet connection to provide a continuous display of your selections from over 1,000 free apps, many provided by chumby industries ...
Apparently "Chumby Industries" is a service provider for this sort of device which, according to its own website, had "year-long hiatus [chumby.com] sometime relatively recently.
So it looks as if those who stuck with the devic
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Oops — an extraneous "you" in the first line.
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Dash is Sony's implementation of Chumby, with additional video codecs. People bought it instead of Chumby because of those codecs, and in spite of it saying Sony on it.
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"The product page for the Sony Dash [sony.com] does not really shed any more light on what it is, but the pictures indicate it is a clunky tablet-like device which you can be stood on a table against a backdrop of different home furnishings, mostly in soft focus."
How about some better context? Like it's not a "tablet" -- clunky or otherwise. It's a clock. It has some functions in common with tablets -- or phones -- or PCs but it doesn't make a TV a "clunky phone" if it has Skype -- or a phone a "clunky P
Boycott (Score:2)
I thought we were all boycotting Sony since the rootkit fiasco and PS3 firmware feature removal?
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What are/were the Chumby and Dash? (Score:2)
Regarding the current status of Chumby, the company folded several years ago, though the servers were kept up for somewhat longer by investors in hopes of finding a market. Once that fell through, one of the Chumby employees purchased the bulk of what was left for what I suspect was a nominal amount, put up a server to provide basic clock capabilities wh
DASH? (Score:2)
I have one... it sits in cabinet unused (Score:2)