Rarely, instead of working 8 hours, sitting in traffic for 40 minutes, and then playing videogames and reading for another 6, I'd rather work for 12-14 on a fascinating problem and then zip home in 10 minutes.
You're right, it does come out to almost $70, although you left out a few purchases.
5 dollar supply in a free case(if you buy from RS, the shipping box makes an excellent case, better than element14 which shipped a crappy chipboard box with one layer of bubblewrap), and a RPi that only cost me $5 or $7 in shipping because I bought from a local branch instead of the UK headquarters of the distributor.
Including shipping for the power supply(approx $3.87 if I bought it alone, actually less) and a 1 meter HDMI/DVI video cable($1.60 shipped from Amazon), my total cost was no more than $54(e14) or $56(RS).
Although that also doesn't include the SD card($5, shipped from amazon, but I already had some), but then you didn't either. If I do add a real case to the two I have, I'll probably just buy one sheet of plastic at the hardware store($5) and some of standoffs($1) instead of paying $25 for it. After that, it is indeed $65 or $67 for a "$35 computer"
On the plus side, I also had the somewhat dubious piece of mind that if, in the rush to ship, they let production quality slip, I could RMA and get a replacement in a few days instead of having to ship it back to China at my expense.
1500 is the "we want you to be sure you are serious" price for IO devs.
Going by other wearable displays which start at $200 for just dumb screens, that is probably a starting point for just the display. Even though it has only a single display instead of one for each eye, it also has a 2 axis(at least) gyro and camera. Add in the computing device that is presumably in that white box, and it'd be priced more like an unlocked Android phone.
The US price is 1300. Even including GST, that is in nearly double the US price. Considering the Aus $ trade for $1.04 USD, that's outrageous even including currency exchange costs.
It's text. Where, exactly, are they going to hide the watermark? Any of the tricks one would use to watermark, say, a movie script would trivially be defeated with a book.
Strip the markup, replace varying spacing, repaginate, and then compare three copies for word choice/spelling.
Or just OCR the print book like the guys on IRC have been doing since 1988.
Well, for some reason every one of those self-publishing successes was first made famous by the very media companies that you are claiming to be irrelevant
Jonathan Coulton was famous media whore before he became a internet musician?
They hid them simply by not mentioning them to the patent examiner.
Patent examiners do not do any research towards finding prior art. None. They expect the applicant to have done their research and include any relevant prior patents, since, as you said, patents are publicly available.
Dumping is the act of charging a lower price in a foreign market than one charges in the domestic market. They are not dumping, they are selling loss leaders, an action common in every brick and mortar supermarket or electronics store.
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Simple, just don't use these chords in whatever key you are playing in: I-IV-VI-IV
Oh, and don't think you can rearrange it to VI-IV-I-V either. That's taken, too.
No wonder, they pasted the review in twice.
Sometimes, work is fun.
Rarely, instead of working 8 hours, sitting in traffic for 40 minutes, and then playing videogames and reading for another 6, I'd rather work for 12-14 on a fascinating problem and then zip home in 10 minutes.
But usually I have better things to do.
If you happen to buy regularly from Digikey, this one might work for you @ $6.40 plus shipping.
You're right, it does come out to almost $70, although you left out a few purchases.
5 dollar supply in a free case(if you buy from RS, the shipping box makes an excellent case, better than element14 which shipped a crappy chipboard box with one layer of bubblewrap), and a RPi that only cost me $5 or $7 in shipping because I bought from a local branch instead of the UK headquarters of the distributor.
Including shipping for the power supply(approx $3.87 if I bought it alone, actually less) and a 1 meter HDMI/DVI video cable($1.60 shipped from Amazon), my total cost was no more than $54(e14) or $56(RS).
Although that also doesn't include the SD card($5, shipped from amazon, but I already had some), but then you didn't either. If I do add a real case to the two I have, I'll probably just buy one sheet of plastic at the hardware store($5) and some of standoffs($1) instead of paying $25 for it. After that, it is indeed $65 or $67 for a "$35 computer"
On the plus side, I also had the somewhat dubious piece of mind that if, in the rush to ship, they let production quality slip, I could RMA and get a replacement in a few days instead of having to ship it back to China at my expense.
1500 is the "we want you to be sure you are serious" price for IO devs.
Going by other wearable displays which start at $200 for just dumb screens, that is probably a starting point for just the display. Even though it has only a single display instead of one for each eye, it also has a 2 axis(at least) gyro and camera. Add in the computing device that is presumably in that white box, and it'd be priced more like an unlocked Android phone.
Guess what, you don't get a choice. The other driver and many of the drivers around you will be using it, get subpoenaed and you'll still be pwned.
Lots of people now have dashcams because they believe that they are more likely to be hit than to cause an accident.
This isn't the cheating bit, but it covers the same ground of "crap, I can put my life up on a screen whenever"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWN9WEU2NP8
Plus, if you want a complete map of the water infrastructure, you can just asked the water company and they will /give/ it to you.
Theobroma cacao, or cacao/cocoa tree
Buy the best sound quality headphones, without caring for noise isolation, that you can get for 40 bucks.
Then buy a pair of hearing protectors at the hardware store and hack the speakers into them.
If you're feeling a bit more adventurous, buy some good earbuds for the mids/highs and some so-so 1" speakers for the lows and do the same thing.
If people will jailbreak phones so they can remove the carrier crapware, why wouldn't they just remove that feature as well?
Is this going to get even more meta?
The US price is 1300. Even including GST, that is in nearly double the US price. Considering the Aus $ trade for $1.04 USD, that's outrageous even including currency exchange costs.
It's text. Where, exactly, are they going to hide the watermark? Any of the tricks one would use to watermark, say, a movie script would trivially be defeated with a book.
Strip the markup, replace varying spacing, repaginate, and then compare three copies for word choice/spelling.
Or just OCR the print book like the guys on IRC have been doing since 1988.
I wonder if they included the idea that frequently it is the copycat that takes off, while the originator languishes in obscurity.
It is a well known fact that reality has a lib^H^H^H^Hn anti-MS/Oracle bias.
Jonathan Coulton was famous media whore before he became a internet musician?
They will be including the encoders at a later date once they have picked a camera for the CSI port.
They hid them simply by not mentioning them to the patent examiner.
Patent examiners do not do any research towards finding prior art. None. They expect the applicant to have done their research and include any relevant prior patents, since, as you said, patents are publicly available.
Dumping is the act of charging a lower price in a foreign market than one charges in the domestic market. They are not dumping, they are selling loss leaders, an action common in every brick and mortar supermarket or electronics store.
Odd, FedEx here only delivers Tues-Sat.
If the government offers you money to do what you were going to do anyway, you should take it.
If you don't, they'll surely spend it on something you really are opposed to.
I just happened to have 15 pennies in the change mug on my desk. 5 were older than 1980. 64,64,74,75,79.
What odd is that several of the ones from 199* look crappier.
Considering just about every Nintendo system runs homebrew games with minimal effort, you probably understand him correctly.