You should look into TomTom for the iPhone (it's sold as a car kit + an iPhone app). It's more expensive than a standalone gps (since the low end gps units can now be seen on sale for $80 or less), but the combined integration makes it far superior and far more usable than any top-of-the-line standalone gps device (in my opinion).
The car kit solves the problem of the battery life (with your iPhone being on for so long). It also has an external speaker and a mic, plus it pipes in your iPhone music to your stereo. The integration allows you to listen to music and get it muted when you receive a phone call, or get audio traffic alerts/directions/red light camera alerts. It also integrates nicely into your existing address book (and your web browser).
Damn, I sound like a TomTom shill (which I'm not). I just did the research to buy this for a relative. Just take a look at its customer reviews on iTunes. They're not stellar, but they're still pretty good.
Discounting phone bills in exchange for AD space is a quick way to have everybody consider it.
eMachines has done this for computers, and just look at the great reputation they have now. ePhones can do the same for cell phones. Kudos for the idea, I don't see what could possibly go wrong.
I agree with this. Personally, I believe they should try to adopt a particular community for the long-term (if they can, most likely they won't be able to, but...). If they could go somewhere, forge relationships, get the lay of the land, then they could try to find ways to try to keep in touch and keep on helping that community once they're back home. And every year, they could try to go back to the same community to monitor their progress and renew their face-to-face relationships.
Not that what I'm suggesting is going to be easy (or even that they'd actually want to do that). The fact that they seem to be Americans and have so little vacation to begin with will make this hard. Looking for an organization to piggy back on is probably still the best idea, and if I were them, I'd also look for places where my family, my employer (their foundation), my friends had existing ties with, and/or possibly look for a place where they could see themselves also retire twenty years down the road.
Just look at the success of some of these games on social networking sites. People fill that crap out trading their privacy for an increase in an arbitrary value in some shitty "app".
How many people do that? Only a fraction of the population plays facebook apps. Only a fraction of those people start filling out surveys. Only a fraction still of those people remaining actually complete and submit the surveys (with the most intrusive questions/conditions/fine prints always being discovered near the end of it). Plus, some of those people who just stopped filling out those surveys midway through -- just end up sending some cash through pay pal. So what's the remaining percentage of actual people that have given up their privacy? 1%? 2%? Do you want those people to really speak for all of us? Personally, I can tell you they don't speak for me.
Your average internet user really doesn't seem to give a damn as long as they can get what they want quickly and easily.
Where it comes to privacy, there are no "average" users. A fourteen year old kid, for instance, may have no qualms about compromising his privacy to large corporations in return for shiny useless things, but that same kid will scream bloody murder if his parents or the officials of his school start going through his locker, his bag, his computer, or his room.
Same goes for every possible demographics out there. Everyone wants privacy from someone. It may be from their spouse, their ex, their family, their mother or brother-in-law, their clergy, their neighbor, their boss, their cops, the city, the state, the large corporations, the scammers, the telemarketers, the banks, the schools, or the homeless guy who's constantly digging through your garbage, but at least we all want privacy from *someone*.
Now, we may not all agree on who we want privacy from, but that doesn't matter. A privacy law that protects your credit report from large corporations or from your employer can also be the same law that protects my credit report from my brother-in-law and many scammers. And ultimately, we may not be worried about the same things, and we certainly don't behave the same way, but we have a common interest in creating strong privacy laws that protect everyone (and not just the people at the very top).
You need to re-read his words again. The baby *is* the software project. The baby has just been GPL'd. His words make that pretty clear.
The third (but maybe the most important) reason of switching to GPL is that our baby reached the age (10 month old) when he needs his father more and more. I dont want to disappoint him:). With more developers involved the development process will hopefully more smooth and wont stop when I am busy.
Am I only the one who understood the summary to mean that he lacked interest in like image processing? And that the submitter/slashdot editor must have been like a valley girl?
Interesting that it says "while waiting", do this for now. It did not say like the summary implies to abandon IE6 forever. This is still not good news for Microsoft, but it significantly alters what was said.
Personally, I'm getting tired of this Slashdot sensationalistic audience-baiting. It incites more traffic, and therefore more ad impressions I guess, but really how much longer is this going to last? Aren't we all getting tired of this approach? Personally, I know I'm browsing Slashdot less and less.
A controversial plan to introduce hundreds of new top-level domains into the Internet has reached a crossroads: The plan will either be accelerated or delayed based on public comments due at the end of January.
I'm glad that here at Slashdot, we have submitters/editors that dumb down the original summaries for us.
Nothing of note. If they pull out publicly, they will continue to work with the Chinese through third parties. Shareholders don't give a damn about human rights or free speech. They just want their money.
Yes and no. Yes, Corporations and shareholders do not care about human rights. But no, Corporations will be leery to do business in a country that tries to steal their intellectual property (and yes, that's also what happened in this case, Google claims the Chinese government stole intellectual property as well). This is the reason Corporations will pull out of China. It will be completely about their self-interest (and will have little to do with human rights).
Now don't get me wrong, they'll still do business in China. After all, American corporations still do business in Africa. It's just that when you don't trust a local government, you open up a mine there, or you open up a fast food joint, or a supermarket, but you keep everything else that's really valuable well outside of their reach.
And not too many Corporations even need to do this, it's just like when you live in a bad neighborhood, just a few people need to move away for their own personal self-interest, then convergence happens, everybody that can afford to -- will move away as well, and that neighborhood is only left with the most vulnerable people and the poorest people. This is what's likely to happen to China as well, most of the high-value business functions and/or refinement processes will be taken out of there, with only the least valuable business functions/units staying back.
Kodak is not a company that is widely known for frivolous lawsuits.
Well, let it be known then...
I didn't find the actual 'preview' patent we're discussing, but here is another one by Kodak and that one is a doozy. Take a look at its claims especially.
Excuse? No! Screw that, man. It's bad. But I wanted to correct any misconceptions the article may have caused. It IS NOT as bad as COINTELPRO. Not by a long shot. I have family who were impacted by COINTELPRO, and I can tell you, that was horrendous. This is merely wrong, as opposed to evil.
That's it. They've already started!!! They're claiming to one of us already.
It doesnt work that way. They are already paying for what the average person uses. Thats what the cost is based on.
You're implying that Comcast is only interested in recouping its own costs and expenses. That's just silly. Comcast is not some philanthropic do-gooder non-profit organization. It will charge whatever the market can bear (or whatever it can get away with).
Best Buy has decent prices for the things consumers pay attention to, and indeed something like three years ago Best Buy stopped the insane upselling pressure they were putting their customers under, but buyer beware for the things that consumers don't initially pay attention to, or initially comparison shop on.
(Mon$ter Priced) cables, spare Lithium-Ion batteries, or returning/troubleshooting issues, those are where Best Buy will still try to screw you on. You don't have to take my word for it. Just dig up your last Best Buy receipt where you purchased a cable as well, and then compare it to the price you would have paid had you ordered it online through resellerratings.org or newegg.com.
What is Red Hat thinking? Written notice? Microsoft doesn't always give notice, that's why its audits are so successful. At least during one incident reported on Slashdot, they didn't give any notice and just showed up with Federal agents and guns.
For those who try to start a business, think twice. A single tiny wrong move means you will go to bankruptcy, lose your house, and end up bring your family into suicide.
That's a load of bollocks. If you have assets to begin with, there are many ways to protect them from bankruptcy. Just ask Maddoff or O.J. Simpson. Create an LLC, create a Trust, start a Foundation, buy property in Florida (and stop making payments on your current house), take insurance, max out your pension/401K plan, put your assets under the name of your hooker/mom/girlfriend/children's name, mail your relatives all your jewelry, gamble online, keep a car that's below a certain value, etc.
You just have to do your homework, that's all (the earlier, the better obviously).And no, I don't know which parts are really feasible, or even legal, in the United States or even anywhere for that matter. I'm not a lawyer, nor a financial adviser. I just repeat what I've seen on the news, that's all.
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You should look into TomTom for the iPhone (it's sold as a car kit + an iPhone app). It's more expensive than a standalone gps (since the low end gps units can now be seen on sale for $80 or less), but the combined integration makes it far superior and far more usable than any top-of-the-line standalone gps device (in my opinion).
The car kit solves the problem of the battery life (with your iPhone being on for so long). It also has an external speaker and a mic, plus it pipes in your iPhone music to your stereo. The integration allows you to listen to music and get it muted when you receive a phone call, or get audio traffic alerts/directions/red light camera alerts. It also integrates nicely into your existing address book (and your web browser).
Damn, I sound like a TomTom shill (which I'm not). I just did the research to buy this for a relative. Just take a look at its customer reviews on iTunes. They're not stellar, but they're still pretty good.
Discounting phone bills in exchange for AD space is a quick way to have everybody consider it.
eMachines has done this for computers, and just look at the great reputation they have now. ePhones can do the same for cell phones. Kudos for the idea, I don't see what could possibly go wrong.
- Steve Jobs
I agree with this. Personally, I believe they should try to adopt a particular community for the long-term (if they can, most likely they won't be able to, but...). If they could go somewhere, forge relationships, get the lay of the land, then they could try to find ways to try to keep in touch and keep on helping that community once they're back home. And every year, they could try to go back to the same community to monitor their progress and renew their face-to-face relationships.
Not that what I'm suggesting is going to be easy (or even that they'd actually want to do that). The fact that they seem to be Americans and have so little vacation to begin with will make this hard. Looking for an organization to piggy back on is probably still the best idea, and if I were them, I'd also look for places where my family, my employer (their foundation), my friends had existing ties with, and/or possibly look for a place where they could see themselves also retire twenty years down the road.
Just look at the success of some of these games on social networking sites. People fill that crap out trading their privacy for an increase in an arbitrary value in some shitty "app".
How many people do that? Only a fraction of the population plays facebook apps. Only a fraction of those people start filling out surveys. Only a fraction still of those people remaining actually complete and submit the surveys (with the most intrusive questions/conditions/fine prints always being discovered near the end of it). Plus, some of those people who just stopped filling out those surveys midway through -- just end up sending some cash through pay pal. So what's the remaining percentage of actual people that have given up their privacy? 1%? 2%? Do you want those people to really speak for all of us? Personally, I can tell you they don't speak for me.
Your average internet user really doesn't seem to give a damn as long as they can get what they want quickly and easily.
Where it comes to privacy, there are no "average" users. A fourteen year old kid, for instance, may have no qualms about compromising his privacy to large corporations in return for shiny useless things, but that same kid will scream bloody murder if his parents or the officials of his school start going through his locker, his bag, his computer, or his room.
Same goes for every possible demographics out there. Everyone wants privacy from someone. It may be from their spouse, their ex, their family, their mother or brother-in-law, their clergy, their neighbor, their boss, their cops, the city, the state, the large corporations, the scammers, the telemarketers, the banks, the schools, or the homeless guy who's constantly digging through your garbage, but at least we all want privacy from *someone*.
Now, we may not all agree on who we want privacy from, but that doesn't matter. A privacy law that protects your credit report from large corporations or from your employer can also be the same law that protects my credit report from my brother-in-law and many scammers. And ultimately, we may not be worried about the same things, and we certainly don't behave the same way, but we have a common interest in creating strong privacy laws that protect everyone (and not just the people at the very top).
The third (but maybe the most important) reason of switching to GPL is that our baby reached the age (10 month old) when he needs his father more and more. I dont want to disappoint him :). With more developers involved the development process will hopefully more smooth and wont stop when I am busy.
Am I only the one who understood the summary to mean that he lacked interest in like image processing? And that the submitter/slashdot editor must have been like a valley girl?
Also, what's the legal system like down there?
Interesting that it says "while waiting", do this for now. It did not say like the summary implies to abandon IE6 forever. This is still not good news for Microsoft, but it significantly alters what was said.
Personally, I'm getting tired of this Slashdot sensationalistic audience-baiting. It incites more traffic, and therefore more ad impressions I guess, but really how much longer is this going to last? Aren't we all getting tired of this approach? Personally, I know I'm browsing Slashdot less and less.
vsync? Tearing?? Do you have a screenshot of what you mean?
all of them have a 30 day escape clause in their contracts.
That clause didn't show up there by accident. In the US, it's the law.
"Aug-14-2007: Food.net is not for sale and has not been for sale. Thank you for visiting. "
Those damn open source zealouts, it doesn't seem like they're budging.
Reduce the price of maintaining a domain name, and it's only going to increase the instances of domain-squatting.
Personally, I can't wait until .bs (Bahamas) becomes available.
I've already purchased all the .bj (Benin) I could afford and I'm already reselling those for a tidy profit.
A controversial plan to introduce hundreds of new top-level domains into the Internet has reached a crossroads: The plan will either be accelerated or delayed based on public comments due at the end of January.
I'm glad that here at Slashdot, we have submitters/editors that dumb down the original summaries for us.
Nothing of note. If they pull out publicly, they will continue to work with the Chinese through third parties. Shareholders don't give a damn about human rights or free speech. They just want their money.
Yes and no. Yes, Corporations and shareholders do not care about human rights. But no, Corporations will be leery to do business in a country that tries to steal their intellectual property (and yes, that's also what happened in this case, Google claims the Chinese government stole intellectual property as well). This is the reason Corporations will pull out of China. It will be completely about their self-interest (and will have little to do with human rights).
Now don't get me wrong, they'll still do business in China. After all, American corporations still do business in Africa. It's just that when you don't trust a local government, you open up a mine there, or you open up a fast food joint, or a supermarket, but you keep everything else that's really valuable well outside of their reach.
And not too many Corporations even need to do this, it's just like when you live in a bad neighborhood, just a few people need to move away for their own personal self-interest, then convergence happens, everybody that can afford to -- will move away as well, and that neighborhood is only left with the most vulnerable people and the poorest people. This is what's likely to happen to China as well, most of the high-value business functions and/or refinement processes will be taken out of there, with only the least valuable business functions/units staying back.
Kodak is not a company that is widely known for frivolous lawsuits.
Well, let it be known then...
I didn't find the actual 'preview' patent we're discussing, but here is another one by Kodak and that one is a doozy. Take a look at its claims especially.
Capturing digital images to be transferred to an e-mail address -- US Patent no 7,453,605
Excuse? No! Screw that, man. It's bad. But I wanted to correct any misconceptions the article may have caused. It IS NOT as bad as COINTELPRO. Not by a long shot. I have family who were impacted by COINTELPRO, and I can tell you, that was horrendous. This is merely wrong, as opposed to evil.
That's it. They've already started!!! They're claiming to one of us already.
What's stopping someone from making up a false story about a political/corporate enemy and submitting it to them?
This already happens all the time, even without wikileaks.
It's just that false stories are usually submitted to outlets that already have a bias against whomever is already being targeted.
It doesnt work that way. They are already paying for what the average person uses. Thats what the cost is based on.
You're implying that Comcast is only interested in recouping its own costs and expenses. That's just silly. Comcast is not some philanthropic do-gooder non-profit organization. It will charge whatever the market can bear (or whatever it can get away with).
It does business in the US. Doesn't it.
Best Buy has decent prices for the things consumers pay attention to, and indeed something like three years ago Best Buy stopped the insane upselling pressure they were putting their customers under, but buyer beware for the things that consumers don't initially pay attention to, or initially comparison shop on.
(Mon$ter Priced) cables, spare Lithium-Ion batteries, or returning/troubleshooting issues, those are where Best Buy will still try to screw you on. You don't have to take my word for it. Just dig up your last Best Buy receipt where you purchased a cable as well, and then compare it to the price you would have paid had you ordered it online through resellerratings.org or newegg.com.
What is Red Hat thinking? Written notice? Microsoft doesn't always give notice, that's why its audits are so successful. At least during one incident reported on Slashdot, they didn't give any notice and just showed up with Federal agents and guns.
Very cool link, there was just a typo in your url.
The correct url is http://www.moillusions.com/2007/12/julian-beevers-new-3d-sidewalk.html
That's a load of bollocks. If you have assets to begin with, there are many ways to protect them from bankruptcy. Just ask Maddoff or O.J. Simpson. Create an LLC, create a Trust, start a Foundation, buy property in Florida (and stop making payments on your current house), take insurance, max out your pension/401K plan, put your assets under the name of your hooker/mom/girlfriend/children's name, mail your relatives all your jewelry, gamble online, keep a car that's below a certain value, etc.
You just have to do your homework, that's all (the earlier, the better obviously).And no, I don't know which parts are really feasible, or even legal, in the United States or even anywhere for that matter. I'm not a lawyer, nor a financial adviser. I just repeat what I've seen on the news, that's all.
Are you insane? Evolution dictates that you want to shoot people with bombs who run *towards* you, not the ones that run away from you.