This guy is looking to get rich quick not contribute to human knowledge so I'm not paying attention to him just yet.
If what he's selling is true (my money is on not for the record) he can get rich and change the world for the better. I can't hardly blame someone with a potentially world altering invention wanting to keep it under wraps for as long as possible. Yeah, it's against the open source ethos, but it's also how reality works for 99% of the people out there; you don't give your work away for free. Quite frankly, this would be the exact kind of invention that the patent system works for; one that would still be useful in 20 years, is simple to replicate given a working sample (presumably), and is completely un-obvious to experts in the field.
Personally, they won't convince me until they are making money over the course of a year from operations (as opposed to investment) and/or they hand over a sample of the device to some independent researchers. There's way too much about this company that just doesn't smell right, but that's just my opinion.
I'd love that on the west windows of my home. Odds are high I'd probably save more in cooling costs during the summer than I would in generating electricity. Come to think of it, I should really just install window tinting on those windows, how it is that I've never thought of this before is a mystery to me.
Thousands of lives are saved by the 3-5 minute warnings given for tornadoes that affect a much smaller area. 30 minutes is enough to get people off elevated roadways (and stopped on the side of all the other roads), stop the trains, turn off the gas lines, fill emergency water supplies, get to the safest room of the house, and contact family to communicate a plan for afterwards. 30 minutes warning for a major disaster is a freaking eternity, you can't stop the building toppling if they're going to topple, but you can prevent a host of other causes of injury. An accurate 5 minute warning would save hundreds of lives, 30 minutes would cut fatalities to a fraction their current levels.
I'd say there's 99.9% chance that the thief didn't know what they were grabbing. Break a window, grab any bags or boxes you see and get out of there is how most operate. Of course, there's a 0.01% chance that the thief knows exactly what they were going after and has been casing the mark for weeks waiting for the right opportunity. And then there's a the overlap of maybe 10% that didn't know when they grabbed it but are completely away of it by now, either through media reports (not that the media shouldn't report, it's the 0.01% chance that you need to worry about anyway) or by accessing the tapes directly. The question is if they have contacts with the right criminal elements to make a profit off the information.
You can go back much farther than 10 years and show that people identified as fiscal conservatives are anything but fiscally conservative. The only president in the past 40 years to reduce the debt was Bill Clinton, and that was much more a product of economic boom times as it was of any political agenda on either side of the aisle.
This is like the parent that responds to cries of "that's not fair" with "life isn't fair". Sure, life isn't fair, but responding to unfairness with inaction leads no where. If someone is shouting down logic with raw emotion take a step back and rephrase your argument for as long as you can stand to do so. And if other, potentially swayed people are viewing the argument you don't stop until they have been swayed.
If biologists had fought a concerted effort against creationism as science from day one maybe we wouldn't see people still trying to sneak it into the curriculum. Instead they let the creationists get away with their appeals to emotion and appeals to authority for decade and have been playing catchup ever since.
But the Touchpad sale proved that actually there's huge demand there if the product can be sold not 5-10% cheaper than the iPad, but 50-80%.
Lots of uneconomical products sell if priced at less than 1/3rd the manufacturing cost. There'd be a Model S on every block by now if they sold for $12k. I'd have a 6 monitor setup on my desk at home if I could find one for $300. Not that I don't like my $99 Touchpad, but there's no way I would have dropped $350 for the device.
I've tried reading with the Kindle app, and while the presentation is good, the glow from the screen strains my eyes. Also, battery life sucks for this purpose.
While I agree with you, especially if you read for more than an hour a day, you might get better results switching to black background with white lettering. After a day at work staring at a PC screen, the last thing I want to do is try and read for leisure off of one (which is why I have an eInk reader) but I can do so comfortably for limited amounts of time by swapping the pallet. I know the Android Kindle app allows for swapping, and I'm pretty sure the Touchpad app does as well but that's all I have familiarity with.
The real answer is that it isn't a one time up front payment. AT&T takes a small amount off the top each time a book is delivered over 3g to a kindle. The fact that pennies per month is enough to make this profitable for them should probably indicate what their profit margins are for smartphone data plans, although obviously the data usage on a smart phone is going to be much higher than all but the heaviest Kindle web browser users.
I would assume with onscreen keyboard, those sales, however low they might be, will drop to zero
As a Kindle user, I'd make a guess that those sales aren't low in the slightest. I buy at least 90% of my books through the on Kindle storefront. Being able to buy a book without significantly interrupting whatever it is your doing is kind of one of the big selling points on the Kindle in the first place, it's why they put 3g on the original models instead of WiFi, even if it meant sharing revenue with AT&T to pay for the downloads.
More important that the person not being injured is the fact that "just because you are offended, does not mean something is offensive". The same can be said of someone feeling threatened vs the message being threatening. No doubt this poster threatened someone, after all there has been a history of violence at this school. That does not mean that the poster was threatening in the least.
Could they be looking to drop the WebOS UI (or aspects of it) onto an Android core? I haven't done any development in either as of yet, so I don't know how feasible such a thing would be, how integrated into the OS is the Android UI?
The card interface is nice because it works on the given form factor better than any of the other implementations. Generally, in iOS and Android, you don't know what other applications are currently running. And a taskbar is almost always too small to use easily on a touch device, sure you could make it bigger but then its either taking up extremely valuable real estate or it needs to have a gesture or button to activate. Personally, I don't see it as much different that alt-tabbing through open windows in any desktop OS, though I grant that it would be nice to have two or more applications visible and intractable at the same time.
given that it's also Linux-based, it's probably not all that hard to make Dalvik run there
Maybe I'm misremembering, isn't Dalvik the part of Android that Oracle is suing over? I thought that was the whole reason that Palm didn't want to implement it, sure it would give them access to all the Android apps that are already made (and then we'd have to retrain everyone to think of them as Dalvik apps which Joe Public is never going to understand) but it would open them up to the same lawsuits Google is facing.
I wonder if you could qualify as a charity with the stated goal of buying patents and copyrighted materials and releasing them to the commons. It's obviously got a stated goal to benefit the public good, but I don't see what 501(c) category it would fall into. Are there charities like this that exist already?
Odds are very high that your extension will run just fine. Install the add-on compatibility reporter add-on and try it out. Only very rarely have I ever hit problems, and that's running whatever the latest beta is.
No kidding, it all depends on where you are and what the situation is. I was in a mid sized city in WI when a storm knocked out power to the area, going through an intersection with three to four lanes coming from each direction and no stoplights was... well, it wasn't unstressful, but it did work. People knew what the rules were and followed them. I experienced the same situation with similar traffic levels in a much larger city less than a year later and it led to complete gridlock.
Firefox has always had issues that seem to affect a small subset of users. I remember a time when some people had memory leaks, others couldn't install the flash plug in, and others couldn't get it to close without end tasking. Over the years the number of affected users has gone from small to very small and the issues have slowly dwindled away until now it seems that all that is left is the phantom memory leak which the version 7 appears to finally address successfully for many, possibly everyone.
No Google apps, so no navigation, no email (without third-party apps) and calendaring.
But it will have access to all of that through the Amazon app store, so it's kind of moot.
Yeah, it's WiFi only, but the the trade off to being limited in where you can connect is faster speeds and better battery life, especially if it is going to be using Amazon's cloud services to do heavy lifting. Heck, a lot of tablet devices don't come with 3g and a lot of customers like it that way; paying for a data plan for this tablet would more than double it's cost in the first year. No camera and no microphone? I can think of exactly one common use for that, and claiming that lacking video chat makes a device not a 'tablet computer' is veering dangerously close to a no true Scotsman way of thinking.
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This guy is looking to get rich quick not contribute to human knowledge so I'm not paying attention to him just yet.
If what he's selling is true (my money is on not for the record) he can get rich and change the world for the better. I can't hardly blame someone with a potentially world altering invention wanting to keep it under wraps for as long as possible. Yeah, it's against the open source ethos, but it's also how reality works for 99% of the people out there; you don't give your work away for free. Quite frankly, this would be the exact kind of invention that the patent system works for; one that would still be useful in 20 years, is simple to replicate given a working sample (presumably), and is completely un-obvious to experts in the field.
Personally, they won't convince me until they are making money over the course of a year from operations (as opposed to investment) and/or they hand over a sample of the device to some independent researchers. There's way too much about this company that just doesn't smell right, but that's just my opinion.
To the media guessing someone's yahoo password (hint, it's 'password') is hacking.
I'd love that on the west windows of my home. Odds are high I'd probably save more in cooling costs during the summer than I would in generating electricity. Come to think of it, I should really just install window tinting on those windows, how it is that I've never thought of this before is a mystery to me.
Thousands of lives are saved by the 3-5 minute warnings given for tornadoes that affect a much smaller area. 30 minutes is enough to get people off elevated roadways (and stopped on the side of all the other roads), stop the trains, turn off the gas lines, fill emergency water supplies, get to the safest room of the house, and contact family to communicate a plan for afterwards. 30 minutes warning for a major disaster is a freaking eternity, you can't stop the building toppling if they're going to topple, but you can prevent a host of other causes of injury. An accurate 5 minute warning would save hundreds of lives, 30 minutes would cut fatalities to a fraction their current levels.
It's not as though they weren't selling in California, they just moved their distribution center to a state with more friendly tax laws.
Well then that's kind of silly, since they correlate better to their wear and tear than any other tax would.
He had a bad sublaxion that caused him to accidentally post under his real username, outing himself once and for all as an above average troll.
RIP Dr Bob, you were as entertaining as you were frustrating (which, thanks to /. moderation isn't really saying all that much).
I'd say there's 99.9% chance that the thief didn't know what they were grabbing. Break a window, grab any bags or boxes you see and get out of there is how most operate. Of course, there's a 0.01% chance that the thief knows exactly what they were going after and has been casing the mark for weeks waiting for the right opportunity. And then there's a the overlap of maybe 10% that didn't know when they grabbed it but are completely away of it by now, either through media reports (not that the media shouldn't report, it's the 0.01% chance that you need to worry about anyway) or by accessing the tapes directly. The question is if they have contacts with the right criminal elements to make a profit off the information.
Nah, they're charging to go down the escape slides.
You can go back much farther than 10 years and show that people identified as fiscal conservatives are anything but fiscally conservative. The only president in the past 40 years to reduce the debt was Bill Clinton, and that was much more a product of economic boom times as it was of any political agenda on either side of the aisle.
Great idea, but how on earth are you going to calculate that at point of sale?
This is like the parent that responds to cries of "that's not fair" with "life isn't fair". Sure, life isn't fair, but responding to unfairness with inaction leads no where. If someone is shouting down logic with raw emotion take a step back and rephrase your argument for as long as you can stand to do so. And if other, potentially swayed people are viewing the argument you don't stop until they have been swayed.
If biologists had fought a concerted effort against creationism as science from day one maybe we wouldn't see people still trying to sneak it into the curriculum. Instead they let the creationists get away with their appeals to emotion and appeals to authority for decade and have been playing catchup ever since.
But the Touchpad sale proved that actually there's huge demand there if the product can be sold not 5-10% cheaper than the iPad, but 50-80%.
Lots of uneconomical products sell if priced at less than 1/3rd the manufacturing cost. There'd be a Model S on every block by now if they sold for $12k. I'd have a 6 monitor setup on my desk at home if I could find one for $300. Not that I don't like my $99 Touchpad, but there's no way I would have dropped $350 for the device.
I've tried reading with the Kindle app, and while the presentation is good, the glow from the screen strains my eyes. Also, battery life sucks for this purpose.
While I agree with you, especially if you read for more than an hour a day, you might get better results switching to black background with white lettering. After a day at work staring at a PC screen, the last thing I want to do is try and read for leisure off of one (which is why I have an eInk reader) but I can do so comfortably for limited amounts of time by swapping the pallet. I know the Android Kindle app allows for swapping, and I'm pretty sure the Touchpad app does as well but that's all I have familiarity with.
The real answer is that it isn't a one time up front payment. AT&T takes a small amount off the top each time a book is delivered over 3g to a kindle. The fact that pennies per month is enough to make this profitable for them should probably indicate what their profit margins are for smartphone data plans, although obviously the data usage on a smart phone is going to be much higher than all but the heaviest Kindle web browser users.
I would assume with onscreen keyboard, those sales, however low they might be, will drop to zero
As a Kindle user, I'd make a guess that those sales aren't low in the slightest. I buy at least 90% of my books through the on Kindle storefront. Being able to buy a book without significantly interrupting whatever it is your doing is kind of one of the big selling points on the Kindle in the first place, it's why they put 3g on the original models instead of WiFi, even if it meant sharing revenue with AT&T to pay for the downloads.
More important that the person not being injured is the fact that "just because you are offended, does not mean something is offensive". The same can be said of someone feeling threatened vs the message being threatening. No doubt this poster threatened someone, after all there has been a history of violence at this school. That does not mean that the poster was threatening in the least.
Could they be looking to drop the WebOS UI (or aspects of it) onto an Android core? I haven't done any development in either as of yet, so I don't know how feasible such a thing would be, how integrated into the OS is the Android UI?
The card interface is nice because it works on the given form factor better than any of the other implementations. Generally, in iOS and Android, you don't know what other applications are currently running. And a taskbar is almost always too small to use easily on a touch device, sure you could make it bigger but then its either taking up extremely valuable real estate or it needs to have a gesture or button to activate. Personally, I don't see it as much different that alt-tabbing through open windows in any desktop OS, though I grant that it would be nice to have two or more applications visible and intractable at the same time.
given that it's also Linux-based, it's probably not all that hard to make Dalvik run there
Maybe I'm misremembering, isn't Dalvik the part of Android that Oracle is suing over? I thought that was the whole reason that Palm didn't want to implement it, sure it would give them access to all the Android apps that are already made (and then we'd have to retrain everyone to think of them as Dalvik apps which Joe Public is never going to understand) but it would open them up to the same lawsuits Google is facing.
I wonder if you could qualify as a charity with the stated goal of buying patents and copyrighted materials and releasing them to the commons. It's obviously got a stated goal to benefit the public good, but I don't see what 501(c) category it would fall into. Are there charities like this that exist already?
Odds are very high that your extension will run just fine. Install the add-on compatibility reporter add-on and try it out. Only very rarely have I ever hit problems, and that's running whatever the latest beta is.
No kidding, it all depends on where you are and what the situation is. I was in a mid sized city in WI when a storm knocked out power to the area, going through an intersection with three to four lanes coming from each direction and no stoplights was... well, it wasn't unstressful, but it did work. People knew what the rules were and followed them. I experienced the same situation with similar traffic levels in a much larger city less than a year later and it led to complete gridlock.
Firefox has always had issues that seem to affect a small subset of users. I remember a time when some people had memory leaks, others couldn't install the flash plug in, and others couldn't get it to close without end tasking. Over the years the number of affected users has gone from small to very small and the issues have slowly dwindled away until now it seems that all that is left is the phantom memory leak which the version 7 appears to finally address successfully for many, possibly everyone.
No Google apps, so no navigation, no email (without third-party apps) and calendaring.
But it will have access to all of that through the Amazon app store, so it's kind of moot.
Yeah, it's WiFi only, but the the trade off to being limited in where you can connect is faster speeds and better battery life, especially if it is going to be using Amazon's cloud services to do heavy lifting. Heck, a lot of tablet devices don't come with 3g and a lot of customers like it that way; paying for a data plan for this tablet would more than double it's cost in the first year. No camera and no microphone? I can think of exactly one common use for that, and claiming that lacking video chat makes a device not a 'tablet computer' is veering dangerously close to a no true Scotsman way of thinking.