MIT does not tend to arbitrarily give away its intellectual property, particularly these days. He may discover, as a lot of grad students there discover, that what they want and what MIT wants are not the same thing. They tend to be very cooperative about licensing the work back to the grad student -- for a share of the proceeds, but cooperative licensing is not the same as being willing to give it away.
The jailbreak installs very little by default. Only users who installed SSHD deliberately, leave it running all the time, and didn't change the password are impacted.
Lots of hype, not as big of a deal as it seems. (And, frankly, wouldn't be a big deal if Apple would open up enough of their APIs for the typical apps most people seem to use when they are Jailbroken could work...)
Seriously -- I have FAR more of an issue with Firefox disabling a plugin *that I want there* and not providing a way to re-enable it (or at least any obvious way).
Microsoft may choose to say that Firefox integration is part of the.NET framework, and if I choose to have a problem with it, I can uninstall it. But where does the Mozilla organization get off disabling an extension I have, and may be using, without any ability to opt out?
The double standard on this would be funny if people weren't so serious about it.
This may be a bit of a stretch for the more basement-oriented Slashdot crowd, but the big ol' outside is not as scary of a place as you think. Disease carrying mosquitos are not that big of a problem -- incidents of mosquito borne diseases is very rare in the US, and tend to be hyped by the news when it happens. Bug spray works well, as does going around and making sure you don't have standing pools of water around your property. Its not like we've got malaria problems.
Lots of people read outside -- go walk through a park in any city or town in the US. Lots of people read on trains, or planes, both of which have windows. Go check out any decent coffee house. I was at one this last weekend and saw at least 1/4 of the people sitting there reading on an eBook of some variety (which, frankly, shocked me...)
And more to the point, try reading an e-Book when its NOT sunny. The screens have fairly low contrast and are MUCH easier on the eyes outside.
I can get a couple books worth of reading out of a Kindle charge -- unless I forget to turn the wireless back off after downloading something, or syncing my current spot so I can pick it up later on my phone.
I've had the battery die before on me while reading. A solar cover for it would be really nice.
And, Amazon subsidizes the cost of the ebook -- they pay the publisher the full print price that they would pay for a paper copy of the book, and are subsidizing the cost of the book to keep it at $9.99 in the US.
If the paper book itself costs more elsewhere, they'd have to eat more of the loss unless the ebook price went up.
The publishers are the problem, not Amazon. The publishers are fighting tooth and nail to prevent the success of ebooks.
At the absolute height of the cold war, we massively outgunned Russia and China in conventional and strategic nuclear weapons. The idea that Russia had a bigger conventional force was bad intelligence, as has been known for at least ten years now.
In neither conventional nor nuclear kind of war, right now, would the US need allies against China or Russia because they'd both be fighting a conventional war.
Its this "fighting among the people" crap in Iraq and Afghanistan that is the problem, and historically there's not much evidence that its even possible to win in that situation.
And the financial risk to China is actually far worse than you think. They depend on us for the fundamentals of their economy. We only depend on them for loans and cheap shit that people can live without. They can't start a trade war with us, because we *can* survive it. They can't.
Its short sighted, perhaps, but revenue is king at most businesses. Getting revenue recognized (not earning it, but being able to recognize it) is the #1 priority.
Its not exactly a secret that Japan is developing them because the majority of their population is getting to an age where they will not be able to take care of themselves.
The needs of the elderly is driving robotic and exoskeleton development in Japan.
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If YANAGNC, what makes you think that option is most likely?
That's fantastic, now we can export 80's bush to the 31st century!
As a grad student, MIT owns his work.
MIT does not tend to arbitrarily give away its intellectual property, particularly these days. He may discover, as a lot of grad students there discover, that what they want and what MIT wants are not the same thing. They tend to be very cooperative about licensing the work back to the grad student -- for a share of the proceeds, but cooperative licensing is not the same as being willing to give it away.
SSHD isn't on jailbroken phones.
The jailbreak installs very little by default. Only users who installed SSHD deliberately, leave it running all the time, and didn't change the password are impacted.
Lots of hype, not as big of a deal as it seems. (And, frankly, wouldn't be a big deal if Apple would open up enough of their APIs for the typical apps most people seem to use when they are Jailbroken could work...)
And on top of that, leave it running.
SBSettings, folks. Turn it on when you need it. If you're not using it, why leave it on even if you have changed the password?
Blame the French.
They're the ones who came up with the baguette.
They're always causing problems... (the French, not the baguette. They're not evil, they're just baked that way.)
Seriously -- I have FAR more of an issue with Firefox disabling a plugin *that I want there* and not providing a way to re-enable it (or at least any obvious way).
Microsoft may choose to say that Firefox integration is part of the .NET framework, and if I choose to have a problem with it, I can uninstall it. But where does the Mozilla organization get off disabling an extension I have, and may be using, without any ability to opt out?
The double standard on this would be funny if people weren't so serious about it.
Other than being a tech bigot, what does it being on a MS platform have to do with anything?
In the last 20 years I've seen vastly more incompetently managed enterprise Unix systems.
This sort of a failure is a process failure, not a technology failure.
This may be a bit of a stretch for the more basement-oriented Slashdot crowd, but the big ol' outside is not as scary of a place as you think. Disease carrying mosquitos are not that big of a problem -- incidents of mosquito borne diseases is very rare in the US, and tend to be hyped by the news when it happens. Bug spray works well, as does going around and making sure you don't have standing pools of water around your property. Its not like we've got malaria problems.
Lots of people read outside -- go walk through a park in any city or town in the US. Lots of people read on trains, or planes, both of which have windows. Go check out any decent coffee house. I was at one this last weekend and saw at least 1/4 of the people sitting there reading on an eBook of some variety (which, frankly, shocked me...)
And more to the point, try reading an e-Book when its NOT sunny. The screens have fairly low contrast and are MUCH easier on the eyes outside.
I can get a couple books worth of reading out of a Kindle charge -- unless I forget to turn the wireless back off after downloading something, or syncing my current spot so I can pick it up later on my phone.
I've had the battery die before on me while reading. A solar cover for it would be really nice.
And, Amazon subsidizes the cost of the ebook -- they pay the publisher the full print price that they would pay for a paper copy of the book, and are subsidizing the cost of the book to keep it at $9.99 in the US.
If the paper book itself costs more elsewhere, they'd have to eat more of the loss unless the ebook price went up.
The publishers are the problem, not Amazon. The publishers are fighting tooth and nail to prevent the success of ebooks.
No, the only reason it couldn't go International was because the hardware used Sprint's shitty network in the US, and wouldn't work anywhere else.
Google Voice isn't VOIP.
You can't make calls with it.
Did you miss the first eight seasons?
Stargate (movie) and SG-1 were always about the power of religion to control people. The Ori were more in line with that then the Replicators were.
Atlantis missed the boat on that whole subtext as well, but was a "fun" series, IMO.
At the absolute height of the cold war, we massively outgunned Russia and China in conventional and strategic nuclear weapons. The idea that Russia had a bigger conventional force was bad intelligence, as has been known for at least ten years now.
In neither conventional nor nuclear kind of war, right now, would the US need allies against China or Russia because they'd both be fighting a conventional war.
Its this "fighting among the people" crap in Iraq and Afghanistan that is the problem, and historically there's not much evidence that its even possible to win in that situation.
And the financial risk to China is actually far worse than you think. They depend on us for the fundamentals of their economy. We only depend on them for loans and cheap shit that people can live without. They can't start a trade war with us, because we *can* survive it. They can't.
This is America. Parents no longer have any responsibility.
Better than XP, actually.
My old Dell X1 and my Mini9 both run far better on W7 than XP, although the Mini9 has OSX on it now.
Its also not a secret that Microsoft has been contributing work to both Mono and whatever the Silverlight port they've got is ...
So, both you and the GP seem to have missed the boat there.
Why do they still have a job?
Because money you have trumps money you may have.
Its short sighted, perhaps, but revenue is king at most businesses. Getting revenue recognized (not earning it, but being able to recognize it) is the #1 priority.
Lick it. You know you want to.
No we don't. That comes from Africa.
Its not exactly a secret that Japan is developing them because the majority of their population is getting to an age where they will not be able to take care of themselves.
The needs of the elderly is driving robotic and exoskeleton development in Japan.
So why would someone wear one?
Because they can't walk without one.
There was no mention of a patent either.
He filed one, he doesn't have one.
So there's nothing to sell, and just an opportunity for a potential buyer to find prior art, block the patent on that basis and do it themselves.
What does Apple's App Store offer that XBox Live doesn't?
You can buy games. You can buy add on content. You can buy media. You can even download demos and upgrade them in-game to the full game.
The only benefit I can see to the App Store is that I can see in dollars what something costs.
Um, copper pipes in the slab aren't code anywhere as far as I know.
They corrode. They fail. If they're not in there deep enough, then they crack your foundation.
The amount of patently incorrect info in this story may be near a record on Slashdot.
And that says something ...