Needless to say, she really enjoyed it. However, she told all of her friends, and her friends got jealous and razzed their boyfriends, and they all gave me guff the next time they saw me, saying it made them look bad.
This was my goal for every Valentines day. Don't worry about what she thinks, think about the story she will tell.
On February 13th, around 11:30 at night back in my college days, I got 3 rolls of ribbon and tied a bow around as many trees as I could between her dorm and her classes. I put a note under her door saying "Every time you see a bow, remember how much I love you". Cheesy, I know. But, she was the talk of the college campus. Word got around that I tied the bows for her, and she felt like the most popular girl in school. That made her feel like a million bucks. Total cost? $15.
Amazon has frequently shipped games more than 1 week after the release. (My friend just got ME2, That long of a wait will steer any gamer away from Amazon for game purchases).
He is scrolling through the pics, he exits out, then tries to open the photos again. Instead of seeing the picture, he sees an error box stating "There is not enough memory to load the photo".
Does anyone really want to go to Antarctica? It is a cold, harsh environment that will isolate you from your family, friends, and civilized comforts. It had its novelty factor back in the day, just like Mars does now.
How is Mars / The moon more exciting/pleasant than Antarctica? Can we really expect people to want to populate the Moon or Mars without a large financial/spiritual/political motivation? Sure, there is the novelty factor of "OMG I'm on the moon!!!" but that can only last for a few years.
There was a recent patent/article about using wifi signals to "see" through walls. Essentially, they look at the wifi signal from several wireless sources, see the change, and do the math to see movement. It would be a bit harder to implement on a vertical scale, but the science is there. I wouldn't be surprised if it becomes more mainstream 10 years from now.
Marketing information. They will gather information about the amount of foot traffic down a certain road, the demographics (white, male, middle age, family...), and the time of day they get the traffic. Companies will pay good money for that, especially one trying to determine the best location for their specialty shop.
Or, lets put a powerful projector on these, and let them project commercials directly in front of someone.
Oh! How about changing these to helicopters and hang signs on them.
People are loosing faith in googles 'Do No Evil' claim, especially since they are becoming so big. Go to Google news and type in "Google Monopoly" to see the effect:
Now you have the Nexus issue, and Google's name is being drug through the mud. Their name needs some work, and taking care of their biggest black eye will help if it is published widely enough.
The original intention was good. Back in the early days of the geek squad, we removed all the bloatware, created copies of the operating system for a clean install (most computers do not include this), and tweaked a few (a very small number) of registry settings. This service is worthwhile if you have a lot of money and you don't want to tweak anything when you get the PC.
Requiring you to pay for the service because of Bait and Switch? This sounds like a scam that management promotes. We know that the big box companies make a very small profit when selling a PC, so they have to make up the difference by selling expensive peripherials ($30 USB or Ethernet cable, anyone?). Some stores would rather not sell you a PC then sell you one with zero add-ons.
Unable to buy a laptop because it already had the service performed on the unit? That should raise some red flags with the BBB. Best Buy agrees to buy the laptops for a specific price because it has the bloatware, getting the laptops for a lower cost. Best Buy sells a service to remove the bloatware, once again, getting more money for (almost) the same product. Best Buy modifies more PC's than not, almost ensuring a bait-and-switch situation. (just a guess)
Google is a fan of producing relevant, non-intrusive ads. I also understand that websites need ads. I would be ok if their adblocker removed the annoying ads and kept the decent ads. From Google's '10 things' (http://www.google.com/corporate/tenthings.html)
6. You can make money without doing evil.
Google is a business. The revenue we generate is derived from offering search technology to companies and from the sale of advertising displayed on our site and on other sites across the web. Hundreds of thousands of advertisers worldwide use AdWords to promote their products; hundreds of thousands of publishers take advantage of our AdSense program to deliver ads relevant to their site content. To ensure that we're ultimately serving all our users (whether they are advertisers or not), we have a set of guiding principles for our advertising programs and practices:
* We don't allow ads to be displayed on our results pages unless they are relevant where they are shown. And we firmly believe that ads can provide useful information if, and only if, they are relevant to what you wish to find – so it's possible that certain searches won't lead to any ads at all.
* We believe that advertising can be effective without being flashy. We don't accept pop-up advertising, which interferes with your ability to see the content you've requested. We've found that text ads that are relevant to the person reading them draw much higher clickthrough rates than ads appearing randomly. Any advertiser, whether small or large, can take advantage of this highly targeted medium.
* Advertising on Google is always clearly identified as a "Sponsored Link," so it does not compromise the integrity of our search results. We never manipulate rankings to put our partners higher in our search results and no one can buy better PageRank. Our users trust our objectivity and no short-term gain could ever justify breaching that trust.
Hardware isn't special in requiring money/time to develop so why is it that this question only really gets asked when an open philosophy is applied to physical objects?
It really is a different beast. If I'm a dirt-poor college student, I can create as much open-source software as I can produce. However, I CANNOT make open source hardware.
Let me put down some numbers. If I want to make a custom circuit board in the US on par with the Arduino, it will cost me around $100 for one board. ($60 if I use a Chinese vendor and a group purchase system such as BatchPCB). Now I have to add in the programmer for a specific chip so I can program it. That is another $50, if you are lucky.
More than likely, your first hardware spin will have a bug. Either because of the free schematic/layout program, or the cheap PCB manufacturer bridged some lines, or something else managed to fail. Now you need a Second hardware spin for Another $100. So I just spent $250 on a hobby project. That is just the start.
I just spent 80 hours of my weekends working on the research, schematics, layouts, purchases, soldering, debugging, soldering, test firmware, more debugging, schematic edits, layout edits, more purchasing, soldering, debugging, and finally, documenting. Now it is on to the firmware, which is where I can draw an equivalent to an open-source software project.
Come talk to me when you build a new PC for every software program that you write. Then, I might call the two equivalent.
Sure, the new printer has less ink than a new cartrage. BUT, I can get a new printer and a new cartrage for around $100 from best buy (cheaper if you go online). The replacement ink for that printer is only $13. So while this new printer has less initial ink, he will still come out ahead if he bought the printer with low ink replacement costs.
New capacitive sensors will work, even if it is covered in a layer of crap. You don't need to physically touch the surface to get it to work.
The real issue is this: How can you make it intuitive enough to work and become widely accepted? There are some people who still struggle with the right-click, let alone anything more complicated.
The timing on this is making me skeptical. It looks like they waited to do the bans until the Christmas season. That way little jimmy will be asking for a new xbox because his old one got banned.
The "accusation" is clear -- that young Mr. Stone has sexual liaisons with older men after invitations are exchanged over the Internet. The accusation is presumably false, and would be defamatory -- in a vacuum. However, in the context of a flame war on a blog, it would be clear to any reader except the most bleeding-cerebrum imbecile that the statement was not lobbed as a statement of fact, but a mere insult. As such, this would be correctly described as "imaginative expression," which is not actionable as defamation. See Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co., 497 U.S. 1, 20 (1990).
Context is everything, and in the context of the online exchange, anyone who thinks that the statements to be false statements of fact that could support a defamation action is not qualified to hold the remote control to the television, let alone elected office or a judge's gavel. Saenz v. Playboy Enterprises, Inc., 653 F. Supp. 552 (N.D. Ill. 1987) ("A reader of criticism expects rhetorical hyperbole and vivid metaphor, so the use of lively language is understood as hyperbole and metaphor, not as fact"), aff'd by 841 F.2d 1309 (7th Cir. 1988).
But then he fails:
Hipcheck16's statements are stupid, unimaginative, and not worthy of anyone taking them seriously. Lisa Stone, on the other hand, is even worse. She is lashing out like a crazy-white-lady mom, and cares nothing for the damage that her actions could cause to political debate.
Slashdot Mirror
I hope they succeed.
Needless to say, she really enjoyed it. However, she told all of her friends, and her friends got jealous and razzed their boyfriends, and they all gave me guff the next time they saw me, saying it made them look bad.
This was my goal for every Valentines day. Don't worry about what she thinks, think about the story she will tell.
On February 13th, around 11:30 at night back in my college days, I got 3 rolls of ribbon and tied a bow around as many trees as I could between her dorm and her classes. I put a note under her door saying "Every time you see a bow, remember how much I love you".
Cheesy, I know. But, she was the talk of the college campus. Word got around that I tied the bows for her, and she felt like the most popular girl in school. That made her feel like a million bucks. Total cost? $15.
Amazon has frequently shipped games more than 1 week after the release. (My friend just got ME2, That long of a wait will steer any gamer away from Amazon for game purchases).
Check out 1:12.
He is scrolling through the pics, he exits out, then tries to open the photos again. Instead of seeing the picture, he sees an error box stating
"There is not enough memory to load the photo".
Seems a bit... sad.
Or skip G3 and use WiMax, so you can get the WiMax iPad
Makes you wonder if they got the name from Star Trek's data pad.
Does anyone really want to go to Antarctica? It is a cold, harsh environment that will isolate you from your family, friends, and civilized comforts. It had its novelty factor back in the day, just like Mars does now.
How is Mars / The moon more exciting/pleasant than Antarctica? Can we really expect people to want to populate the Moon or Mars without a large financial/spiritual/political motivation? Sure, there is the novelty factor of "OMG I'm on the moon!!!" but that can only last for a few years.
There was a recent patent/article about using wifi signals to "see" through walls. Essentially, they look at the wifi signal from several wireless sources, see the change, and do the math to see movement. It would be a bit harder to implement on a vertical scale, but the science is there. I wouldn't be surprised if it becomes more mainstream 10 years from now.
Marketing information. They will gather information about the amount of foot traffic down a certain road, the demographics (white, male, middle age, family...), and the time of day they get the traffic. Companies will pay good money for that, especially one trying to determine the best location for their specialty shop.
Or, lets put a powerful projector on these, and let them project commercials directly in front of someone.
Oh! How about changing these to helicopters and hang signs on them.
Formatting! Please use some proper formatting! my eyes are bleeding from your wall of text!
Not really. I don't pirate, but then again I don't go to concerts. (I really don't care that much about music).
However, my friend who downloads a bunch of music goes to concerts and buys CD's. (He loves music, but can't afford to buy everything that he wants).
So, in my mind, it is an appropriate audience.
Just think of Natal combined with three dimensional televisions. Now there is an interface that I can get behind.
People are loosing faith in googles 'Do No Evil' claim, especially since they are becoming so big. Go to Google news and type in "Google Monopoly" to see the effect:
Newspapers:
German Justice Minister Criticizes Google 'I See a Giant Monopoly Developing That's Reminiscent of Microsoft'
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,671426,00.html
Bloggers:
"I have come to the conclusion that Google has evolved into what economists call a "natural monopoly"."
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/12/28/google_monopoly/
Even the FTC:
http://it-chuiko.com/internet/1887-googles-anti-monopoly-office-is-under-scrutiny.html
Google knows it is under scrutiny. Just look at google trends. http://www.google.com/trends?q=google+monopoly
Now you have the Nexus issue, and Google's name is being drug through the mud. Their name needs some work, and taking care of their biggest black eye will help if it is published widely enough.
http://www.3dmovielist.com/3dhdtvs.html
The original intention was good. Back in the early days of the geek squad, we removed all the bloatware, created copies of the operating system for a clean install (most computers do not include this), and tweaked a few (a very small number) of registry settings. This service is worthwhile if you have a lot of money and you don't want to tweak anything when you get the PC.
Requiring you to pay for the service because of Bait and Switch? This sounds like a scam that management promotes. We know that the big box companies make a very small profit when selling a PC, so they have to make up the difference by selling expensive peripherials ($30 USB or Ethernet cable, anyone?). Some stores would rather not sell you a PC then sell you one with zero add-ons.
Unable to buy a laptop because it already had the service performed on the unit? That should raise some red flags with the BBB.
Best Buy agrees to buy the laptops for a specific price because it has the bloatware, getting the laptops for a lower cost.
Best Buy sells a service to remove the bloatware, once again, getting more money for (almost) the same product.
Best Buy modifies more PC's than not, almost ensuring a bait-and-switch situation. (just a guess)
Something is fishy.
Celebrating. Now we have a program that we can point to, showing how an open-source program can be better than their closed counterparts.
Also, we need to be wary. If Android fails (gets a ton of viruses and spyware), it could be a large black mark on the open-source community.
Google is a fan of producing relevant, non-intrusive ads. I also understand that websites need ads. I would be ok if their adblocker removed the annoying ads and kept the decent ads. From Google's '10 things' (http://www.google.com/corporate/tenthings.html)
6. You can make money without doing evil.
Google is a business. The revenue we generate is derived from offering search technology to companies and from the sale of advertising displayed on our site and on other sites across the web. Hundreds of thousands of advertisers worldwide use AdWords to promote their products; hundreds of thousands of publishers take advantage of our AdSense program to deliver ads relevant to their site content. To ensure that we're ultimately serving all our users (whether they are advertisers or not), we have a set of guiding principles for our advertising programs and practices:
* We don't allow ads to be displayed on our results pages unless they are relevant where they are shown. And we firmly believe that ads can provide useful information if, and only if, they are relevant to what you wish to find – so it's possible that certain searches won't lead to any ads at all.
* We believe that advertising can be effective without being flashy. We don't accept pop-up advertising, which interferes with your ability to see the content you've requested. We've found that text ads that are relevant to the person reading them draw much higher clickthrough rates than ads appearing randomly. Any advertiser, whether small or large, can take advantage of this highly targeted medium.
* Advertising on Google is always clearly identified as a "Sponsored Link," so it does not compromise the integrity of our search results. We never manipulate rankings to put our partners higher in our search results and no one can buy better PageRank. Our users trust our objectivity and no short-term gain could ever justify breaching that trust.
We have seen it before, so I wouldn't be surprised.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/12/12/0114248/860-Million-In-Fines-Handed-Out-For-LCD-Price-Fixing?art_pos=1
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/05/04/22/1850250/RAM-Manufacturers-Fined-for-Price-Fixing?art_pos=4
Chemistry Kits:
http://www.makershed.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=89
Electronics Kits
http://www.makershed.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=49
Sorry to make it look like spam, but I'm a fan of the "Make" site.
Hardware isn't special in requiring money/time to develop so why is it that this question only really gets asked when an open philosophy is applied to physical objects?
It really is a different beast. If I'm a dirt-poor college student, I can create as much open-source software as I can produce. However, I CANNOT make open source hardware.
Let me put down some numbers. If I want to make a custom circuit board in the US on par with the Arduino, it will cost me around $100 for one board. ($60 if I use a Chinese vendor and a group purchase system such as BatchPCB). Now I have to add in the programmer for a specific chip so I can program it. That is another $50, if you are lucky.
More than likely, your first hardware spin will have a bug. Either because of the free schematic/layout program, or the cheap PCB manufacturer bridged some lines, or something else managed to fail. Now you need a Second hardware spin for Another $100. So I just spent $250 on a hobby project. That is just the start.
I just spent 80 hours of my weekends working on the research, schematics, layouts, purchases, soldering, debugging, soldering, test firmware, more debugging, schematic edits, layout edits, more purchasing, soldering, debugging, and finally, documenting. Now it is on to the firmware, which is where I can draw an equivalent to an open-source software project.
Come talk to me when you build a new PC for every software program that you write. Then, I might call the two equivalent.
Sure, the new printer has less ink than a new cartrage. BUT, I can get a new printer and a new cartrage for around $100 from best buy (cheaper if you go online). The replacement ink for that printer is only $13. So while this new printer has less initial ink, he will still come out ahead if he bought the printer with low ink replacement costs.
Printer: $79.99
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/HP+-+Deskjet+Multifunction+Printer/+Copier/+Scanner/9317429.p?id=1218084031435&skuId=9317429
Ink: $13
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/HP+-+60+Ink+Cartridge+-+Black/8761912.p?skuId=8761912&id=1202650704918
And, as always, read the Amazon reviews before you buy.
JFGI
New capacitive sensors will work, even if it is covered in a layer of crap. You don't need to physically touch the surface to get it to work.
The real issue is this: How can you make it intuitive enough to work and become widely accepted? There are some people who still struggle with the right-click, let alone anything more complicated.
The timing on this is making me skeptical. It looks like they waited to do the bans until the Christmas season. That way little jimmy will be asking for a new xbox because his old one got banned.
Some great quotes:
The "accusation" is clear -- that young Mr. Stone has sexual liaisons with older men after invitations are exchanged over the Internet. The accusation is presumably false, and would be defamatory -- in a vacuum. However, in the context of a flame war on a blog, it would be clear to any reader except the most bleeding-cerebrum imbecile that the statement was not lobbed as a statement of fact, but a mere insult. As such, this would be correctly described as "imaginative expression," which is not actionable as defamation. See Milkovich v. Lorain Journal Co., 497 U.S. 1, 20 (1990).
Context is everything, and in the context of the online exchange, anyone who thinks that the statements to be false statements of fact that could support a defamation action is not qualified to hold the remote control to the television, let alone elected office or a judge's gavel. Saenz v. Playboy Enterprises, Inc., 653 F. Supp. 552 (N.D. Ill. 1987) ("A reader of criticism expects rhetorical hyperbole and vivid metaphor, so the use of lively language is understood as hyperbole and metaphor, not as fact"), aff'd by 841 F.2d 1309 (7th Cir. 1988).
But then he fails:
Hipcheck16's statements are stupid, unimaginative, and not worthy of anyone taking them seriously. Lisa Stone, on the other hand, is even worse. She is lashing out like a crazy-white-lady mom, and cares nothing for the damage that her actions could cause to political debate.