If the in-dash computers operate with open standards and a consistent API, they can remain functional for quite a while.
I think the former is quite common. For example, my car supports Bluetooth, USB, 2.5mm audio from devices. They don't provide an API for users because they want to (and do) write and sell the updates themselves. I've connected phones and laptops to it over all three. Sure, I would love to be able to write updates for the car legitimately (lots of people already write and release hacks) - but I am confident the standard interfaces they provided are going to be sufficient for my purposes until I upgrade the car.
All your good tools will be stolen, just buy the cheap stuff so noone wants to takem. Its better to have cheap tools then none at all. (Or you could nuy nice ones and lock them up and then pray you NEVER leave the tools box unlocked)
I agree, we have to buy new tools every few years as they gradually dwindle away. I'm not sure they're being stolen, but more likely lost by some irresponsible tech that didn't put it back in the toolbox.
All jokes aside, we keep a small sledge in our server room toolkit. It can be useful in assembly/disassembly of racks and other large equipment like that.
So, companies had their rights elevated to the rights of people.. But what would happen if people had their rights elevated to the rights of companies?
I mean, manslaughter -> pay $4.5 billion, and walk free.
That IS the purpose of patents. They exist only to prevent others from innovating based on generally available ideas. Or at least to prevent innovation except once every 20 years (in the US).
Sheesh, get with the program (not that you have a choice, anyway)!
Definitely - I don't mind low quality video most of the time. Sorry, but people who require high definition are looking at the picture, and not the content.
Skipping, pausing, buffering, out of sync sound, and flakey sound are the things that bother me. They're nothing to do with video quality as most people understand it.
To each his own I guess. While it's not as important as proper basics, high def is still pretty high on my list.
Some of those features seem pretty useful, especially notification of replies. Will they be added to the regular, non-mobile/tablet version of the website as well?
It's already there and has been for quite a long time. Go turn it on in your settings.
Meh. Companies already face this. If any one of the thousands of parts in your car fails and causes an accident, the manufacturer can (and usually does) get sued. Ask Toyota or Firestone how that plays out. All we're talking about here is another new part. If the internet was around when power steering or the automatic transmission were invented, I bet there would have been a similar discussion about those. I think the potential liability is a good thing, because otherwise manufacturers don't have much incentive to make safe products.
It'll be a race to the bottom for Win8 PC prices now. That's the only way they'll get them off the shelves.
Windows 8 sales flounder as critics pan clumsy interface
Windows 8 sales in Australia and overseas are below expectations, with one US expert describing its user interface as "a monster that terrorises poor office workers and strangles their productivity".
I recently upgraded from 7 and have to agree that the new UI is clunky. Fortunately there's a plethora of third party UI enhancements to make things work like win7. The biggest benefit to win8 as far as I can tell is that it runs much faster than win7 on lower end hardware (read: computers with 8GB or less RAM). The fact that it runs better on lower end hardware makes it a good choice for these cheap laptops.
Dear Mr. Policeman. Somebody stole my phone. I urgently need it because otherwise the kidnapped kid's parents can't join me. It's a life and death situation.
If you have the insurance that most cell phone carriers offer then you can get it replaced if stolen. The insurers require you to file a police report to get the replacement.
According to a story by Charlie Demerjian, a long-time hardware journalist
All you needed to know is right there. Anyone who claims Charlie Demerjian is a journalist does not know what they are talking about. He is simply an AMD shill. He's predicted the demise of Intel, nVidia and anyone else not on AMD's payroll time and again for years. What I don't understand is why anyone reads his drivel. I guess in the end it's the same reason people buy the national enquirer.
Bottom line: Building quality installers is not a job generally well suited to the developer of that application. Many (most?) large firms have software distribution teams that utilize some ESD type of tool (SMS, Marimba, Tivoli, etc) and every one that I know anything about has had their own packaging team. This is a team of individuals whose entire job is to build quality installers that are robust enough to handle oddball client configurations. Further, a good installer should be capable of installing with no user interaction whatsoever; aside from perhaps allowing the user to determine if they want that interaction or not. Not that a developer could not do it, but like most specialized things there IS a benefit to having an expert in this specific area do the work. The team who designed or built my car is not the one who prepared it for delivery to me.
Sure, smaller firms (independent especially) won't be able to afford a professional packager and will have to make due. This is, however a problem that has been solved by many companies - not some mystery waiting to be solved. A good installer should be robust enough to make intelligent decisions based on information gleaned (not from user input) at install time. The more common approach these days seems to be making very specific installer packages and forcing the user to pick the right one before installation. Furthermore, SAP is a poor example - as best I can tell the software is deliberately made to be confusing in order to necessitate the ecosystem behind it. SAP professionals are very highly paid and specialized and if the company fixed this it would damage that ecosystem. To be fair, hardly any company releases software with what I would call a quality installer these days. Some are better than others, but none are anything I would have been proud to put my name on back when I ran a packaging team.
It is interesting to see the different attitudes toward volunteering information to the government. If NYC asked something like this, it would be an outrage and participation would be roughly 1% if it moved forward at all.
Because his opinion doesn't match yours he's now a troll? Is there anybody in the world that isn't a troll to you? You seem to think everybody who disagrees with you is one.
Copyright isn't the issue. Quoting from copyrighted content is fair use.
Plagiarism, on the other hand, is trying to pass off someone else's work as your own.
In this case, the summary says "an anonymous reader writes..." when the actual author is not anonymous and not the submitter of the story.
Heck, at the very least put "J.J. Colao writes for Forbes..." That would be honest, but this is just shitty journalism.
You must be mentally impaired or trolling, or this is your first time ever on slashdot. It's not journalism at all so saying it's "shitty journalism" is not relevant. An anonymous reader wrote in that there was a story on another site and provided a summary. This tips off the Slashdot users to go comment without reading the article or sometimes without even reading the summary. One or two users will actually read both and have a bit of sport trolling the group that did not. It's a cycle.
OR, don't most books already have an isbn barcode on them? You could duplicate the barcode with your printer to attach to the spines and use the smartphone you (probably) already have to scan them with already available free software. No need to input data for the barcodes since they're already tied to that particular book!
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If the in-dash computers operate with open standards and a consistent API, they can remain functional for quite a while.
I think the former is quite common. For example, my car supports Bluetooth, USB, 2.5mm audio from devices. They don't provide an API for users because they want to (and do) write and sell the updates themselves. I've connected phones and laptops to it over all three.
Sure, I would love to be able to write updates for the car legitimately (lots of people already write and release hacks) - but I am confident the standard interfaces they provided are going to be sufficient for my purposes until I upgrade the car.
What is up with spelling Gauges without a U? Canada?
Both spellings are correct. source: http://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/gage
All your good tools will be stolen, just buy the cheap stuff so noone wants to takem. Its better to have cheap tools then none at all. (Or you could nuy nice ones and lock them up and then pray you NEVER leave the tools box unlocked)
I agree, we have to buy new tools every few years as they gradually dwindle away. I'm not sure they're being stolen, but more likely lost by some irresponsible tech that didn't put it back in the toolbox.
All jokes aside, we keep a small sledge in our server room toolkit. It can be useful in assembly/disassembly of racks and other large equipment like that.
So, companies had their rights elevated to the rights of people.. But what would happen if people had their rights elevated to the rights of companies? I mean, manslaughter -> pay $4.5 billion, and walk free.
If you had $4.5 billion you could probably do it.
At that point, we're just holding ourselves back.
That IS the purpose of patents. They exist only to prevent others from innovating based on generally available ideas. Or at least to prevent innovation except once every 20 years (in the US).
Sheesh, get with the program (not that you have a choice, anyway)!
Where are you from? I was assuming Europe, but apparently I'm either wrong or you're not well informed. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/invasion/cron/
Definitely - I don't mind low quality video most of the time. Sorry, but people who require high definition are looking at the picture, and not the content.
Skipping, pausing, buffering, out of sync sound, and flakey sound are the things that bother me. They're nothing to do with video quality as most people understand it.
To each his own I guess. While it's not as important as proper basics, high def is still pretty high on my list.
Well sure, what did you think really happened on the Titanic?
I stopped watching it because the video froze for a few seconds and never saw the end.
Some of those features seem pretty useful, especially notification of replies. Will they be added to the regular, non-mobile/tablet version of the website as well?
It's already there and has been for quite a long time. Go turn it on in your settings.
Meh. Companies already face this. If any one of the thousands of parts in your car fails and causes an accident, the manufacturer can (and usually does) get sued. Ask Toyota or Firestone how that plays out. All we're talking about here is another new part. If the internet was around when power steering or the automatic transmission were invented, I bet there would have been a similar discussion about those. I think the potential liability is a good thing, because otherwise manufacturers don't have much incentive to make safe products.
At that price, toss it a year from now
It'll be a race to the bottom for Win8 PC prices now. That's the only way they'll get them off the shelves.
Windows 8 sales flounder as critics pan clumsy interface
Windows 8 sales in Australia and overseas are below expectations, with one US expert describing its user interface as "a monster that terrorises poor office workers and strangles their productivity".
http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/computers/windows-8-sales-flounder-as-critics-pan-clumsy-interface-20121126-2a2d0.html
I recently upgraded from 7 and have to agree that the new UI is clunky. Fortunately there's a plethora of third party UI enhancements to make things work like win7. The biggest benefit to win8 as far as I can tell is that it runs much faster than win7 on lower end hardware (read: computers with 8GB or less RAM). The fact that it runs better on lower end hardware makes it a good choice for these cheap laptops.
Dear Mr. Policeman. Somebody stole my phone. I urgently need it because otherwise the kidnapped kid's parents can't join me. It's a life and death situation.
If you have the insurance that most cell phone carriers offer then you can get it replaced if stolen. The insurers require you to file a police report to get the replacement.
According to a story by Charlie Demerjian, a long-time hardware journalist
All you needed to know is right there. Anyone who claims Charlie Demerjian is a journalist does not know what they are talking about. He is simply an AMD shill. He's predicted the demise of Intel, nVidia and anyone else not on AMD's payroll time and again for years. What I don't understand is why anyone reads his drivel. I guess in the end it's the same reason people buy the national enquirer.
The SEC will likely be interested in this topic as well. Maybe whoever did it can get the cell next to Martha Stewart.
She was only jailed for five months in 2004.
Bottom line: Building quality installers is not a job generally well suited to the developer of that application. Many (most?) large firms have software distribution teams that utilize some ESD type of tool (SMS, Marimba, Tivoli, etc) and every one that I know anything about has had their own packaging team. This is a team of individuals whose entire job is to build quality installers that are robust enough to handle oddball client configurations. Further, a good installer should be capable of installing with no user interaction whatsoever; aside from perhaps allowing the user to determine if they want that interaction or not. Not that a developer could not do it, but like most specialized things there IS a benefit to having an expert in this specific area do the work. The team who designed or built my car is not the one who prepared it for delivery to me.
Sure, smaller firms (independent especially) won't be able to afford a professional packager and will have to make due. This is, however a problem that has been solved by many companies - not some mystery waiting to be solved.
A good installer should be robust enough to make intelligent decisions based on information gleaned (not from user input) at install time. The more common approach these days seems to be making very specific installer packages and forcing the user to pick the right one before installation.
Furthermore, SAP is a poor example - as best I can tell the software is deliberately made to be confusing in order to necessitate the ecosystem behind it. SAP professionals are very highly paid and specialized and if the company fixed this it would damage that ecosystem.
To be fair, hardly any company releases software with what I would call a quality installer these days. Some are better than others, but none are anything I would have been proud to put my name on back when I ran a packaging team.
It is interesting to see the different attitudes toward volunteering information to the government. If NYC asked something like this, it would be an outrage and participation would be roughly 1% if it moved forward at all.
I certainly wouldn't volunteer mine.
They made a movie about that. Quite a few years ago, actually. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2Fp61jJcIs
Because his opinion doesn't match yours he's now a troll? Is there anybody in the world that isn't a troll to you? You seem to think everybody who disagrees with you is one.
You must be new here, welcome to Slashdot!
Copyright isn't the issue. Quoting from copyrighted content is fair use.
Plagiarism, on the other hand, is trying to pass off someone else's work as your own.
In this case, the summary says "an anonymous reader writes..." when the actual author is not anonymous and not the submitter of the story.
Heck, at the very least put "J.J. Colao writes for Forbes..." That would be honest, but this is just shitty journalism.
You must be mentally impaired or trolling, or this is your first time ever on slashdot. It's not journalism at all so saying it's "shitty journalism" is not relevant. An anonymous reader wrote in that there was a story on another site and provided a summary. This tips off the Slashdot users to go comment without reading the article or sometimes without even reading the summary. One or two users will actually read both and have a bit of sport trolling the group that did not. It's a cycle.
Gamefly is to game rental stores what netflix is to video rentals.
can just kiss the fattest part of my ass, both apple and uspto
Sorry, but Apple already owns the patent on asking someone to kiss their ass.
How many cycles does the fiber last for? Human muscle regenerates itself, so it can cycle sorta indefinitely, right?
Normal human muscles do that. This research could be very interesting for those that suffer from Muscular Dystrophy.
OR, don't most books already have an isbn barcode on them? You could duplicate the barcode with your printer to attach to the spines and use the smartphone you (probably) already have to scan them with already available free software. No need to input data for the barcodes since they're already tied to that particular book!
Passive RFID tags can have a lifespan of 20+ years. Source: http://www.technovelgy.com/ct/technology-article.asp?artnum=47
They're also dirt cheap.