What, monetize like selling the name of their next major OS release?!
Any one else seriously annoyed by this... something that entirely shouldnt matter? Dunno why, but it does. I havent seen it, sounded too depressing / prescient, but I imagine this to be in the vein of Idiocracy [wikipedia.org].
$7k price "envisaged". Hmm.... is that translation or are they simply hoping and guessing rather than have an idea of the actual price... battery leasing not included??
I'm far from alone in saying -- until we can access content, on AND offline, from any device, and for a reasonable price -- entertainment industry is far from where it needs be!
Anyone else have second thoughts when finding a seemingly "great deal" on eBay or other online store where paypal is the only method of payment available?!?
Something about paypal has never seemed quite right to me. In part due to eBay disallowing any other method of online payment allowed, not infrequent stories of frozen accounts with no reason or recourse, no phone number (or other customer service options) available until forced to do so, not to mention questionably high fees for accepting money via their 'service'...
I think the word I'm looking for is insidious. Or perhaps monopolistic?!?
Hmm... comparing launch day, to launch weekend, to 6 months sales figures? What's that all about?!
While I'm sure it's safe to say both Android and iOS are significantly outselling WP7, these numbers listed give little sense of how much. The only figure that gives some semblance of perspective is the text of the article pointing to Google's clocking 200,000 activations per day.
Granted, there are not extended sales figures as this product has just been released. Just the same, boo on poor journalism in not comparing apples to androids (launch day sales).
Looks like Remote Desktop to another system running Chrome OS.
Is there any more evidence this is real than a 30 second video which doesn't even show it booting (which in of itself would be hardly more convincing without more details).
Disappointingly not the first news site I've seen this posted on with so little to show.
When a smart phone is taken into custody, how often would the owner not also be detained?
In the event a phone is acquired by itself, isn't it possible to simply power down a phone, to be accessed in presence of signal suppression equipment (inexpensive, "off the shelf" technology)??
Isn't the Other OS feature the primary vector for PS3 hacks??
While I deploy removing a feature, is anyone really surprised that Sony would take steps to impede piracy, even at the risk of alienating a small portion of users who actually use this feature legitimately.
Honestly, won't MOST users who care about running Linux on a PS3 have a multitude of devices available which run other OSes far better than the PS3??
I'm thinking the few groups who use the PS3 for parallel processing will either downgrade the firmware or select one of the many other hardware options out there equally suited/priced/sized.
I could see myself buying an extended demo if and only if the purchase price went towards full version (somewhere near 100%). There have been plenty of games I've enjoyed 5-10 hours, purchased the damn thing, yet never get around to finishing. Were I able to purchase a reasonable portion (i.e more than 50-60%), with the option to unlock the entire game, I'd be less inclined to download the full game for free.
I'd like to think this is a fair more positive step in the right direction to curtailing cybersquatters -- those for whom there is a special place in hell... along the lines of sub-prime mortgage profiteers (and anyone else making money off the misfortuate/suffering of others) -- rather than a dangerous precedent against fair use.
Seriously, unless you run a legit business which happens to have a name similar to another, where you own ONE similar domain (maybe a few that ALL rediect to your legitimate web business), otherwise you have 0% right to own multiple domains. This is not to mention 1017 variations of a legit domain, where the squatter domains are dead-pages or fake web portals (search/news/whatever). There is no fair-use going on there.
Dual screen design is pretty, but seems like wasted space. Granted, e-ink makes a poor interface for much more than basic device control, but I don't care for having so much wasted space on what should be 99% page. Not a fan of the Kindle design and it's keyboard for the same reason.
Cell phones may be bringing mobile gaming to a whole new level, but I envision surface computing will result in entirely new modes of social (face to face) gaming.
Imagine your favorite board game -- Monopoly, Risk, Life, Scrabble, whatever -- enabled for surface computing;
-No tiny plastic pieces to loose, to choke children/pets, gum up your fancy robot vacuum, or stab the unsuspecting bare foot;
-No need for a banker (who never seems to have a cash flow problem);
-No worries of spilling drinks (on your vintage, 1st edition Talisman board);
-No worry of clumsy players/pet upsetting the board (right when you were poised to cement your bid for world domination);
-No worry of loosing player position on the board;
-Instructions will be available for all players at any time, even all players at the same time (especially useful for those contentious/strategic rules disagreements);
-Games can be enjoyed for game-play and mechanic, rather than being an exercise in re-learning board setup, sorting/shuffling stacks cards and pieces (battlestar galactica anyone?);
-Multimedia animations, themes/skins, and expansions will offer endless possibilities both as enhancements to the classic games we've been playing for years and for a myriad of yet-to-be-though-of modes of social gaming which surface computing will foster.
Tabletop gaming demo was impressive. Tons of potential. I would absolutely love to see a surface computing setup for Magic the Gathering!
Are we talking books that are not available in eBook format? Wouldn't it be exceptionally easier to buy ebooks?
I imagine the time required to photograph/scan a book of any length, as well as searching for and tweaking a application to correct these images is significant. Say we're talking a PDA which doesn't support common ebook formats, in that case wouldn't it be easier and much better quality to convert ebooks into a compatible format (even if removing DRM was required). That, or drop $100 on a user eBook. Finally, if money is the concern, where time is not, there's always the download route. Again, unless we're talking books where someone hasn't already done all the work to scan to nice electronic format...
All that being said and done, best of luck. Sounds like an interesting project for it's own sake.
Unless the games infected with ads are absolutely free, I will not pay for any product containing advertisements (which are not so unobtrusive I can ignore without second thought).
Used to love going to the movies, even arriving at the movie "start" time when I expected a few interesting trailers... Now that theaters are playing commercials (mostly eye-stabingly bad adverts) before the trailers, I pretty much avoid seeing movies in the theater.
Ironic, running the risk of alienating consumers with a supplemental revenue stream. Too bad the loss in product sales are likely more than be made up with the ad revenues. : (
Been using my eBay'ed $115 Sony eReader 505 for the last year. Aside from price being a little more, sounds exactly like what you describe.
I literally don't leave home without it.
Love being able to keep up on my reading on my lunch break or any other downtime that comes along.
I have been tempted to switch to a Kindle, for it's syncing ability with my iPhone (for those times when I may have a few minutes and have left my eReader in my desk/car), but can't justify the added cost and presumably closed format. Haven't done enough research to see if one can import txt/rtf into the kindle.
With my eReader, I have downloaded all the books I physically own, re-reading my library. Formatting downloaded books can be a pain, but when in txt/rtf format it's a no brainer. I feel bad for a half-second. Then I remember I'm not interested in paying twice for content I already have purchased in a different format (unless the added cost is going directly to the author rather than a middleman). There may be a time when I buy an eBook before owning the hardcopy, but with out the ability to turn around a sell/easily give someone a DRMed eBook, there's little motivation to go that route.
This is really too bad. Out of every carrier I've used in the last 5 years -- Edge, US Cellular, Sprint, Verizon, T-mobile, then AT&T -- Verizon has seemed the most solid. I am always on the brink of going back to Verizon, were it not for the boring but entirely functional razr. No other phone seems worth using for cool factor other than the iPhone. Too bad it's proven to be such a trade off for reliability.
Appreciate reading this as a new story, despite the complaints of some. Have been a Blockbuster Total Access Subscriber for a few years now because of the in-store mailer swap. Nice having movies just about all the time. Haven't had cable/TV in years.
Too bad this change has gone so unannounced. I've received no email (don't use a spam filter).
I'll be putting in a complaint shortly. Unless this policy change is reversible, I'll be voicing my complaint with cancelled service.
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Any one else seriously annoyed by this... something that entirely shouldnt matter? Dunno why, but it does.
I havent seen it, sounded too depressing / prescient, but I imagine this to be in the vein of Idiocracy [wikipedia.org].
http://www.rwth-aachen.de/go/id/bhsj/
$7k price "envisaged". Hmm.... is that translation or are they simply hoping and guessing rather than have an idea of the actual price... battery leasing not included??
http://www.techi.com/2011/07/3d-printer-makes-working-tools-with-moving-parts/
Netflix is a great STEP in the right direction...
I'm far from alone in saying -- until we can access content, on AND offline, from any device, and for a reasonable price -- entertainment industry is far from where it needs be!
I am surprised to hear anyone confess to not seeing the video in question as staged within the first 5 seconds.
Hmm, how many times in recent history has progress been so misunderstood, feared, and vitrified??
Just read and acticle on this a day or so ago...
Jazz, Bikinis, Dungeons and Dragons, Video Games.
How will be possibly survive with technology purveying so much depravity?!?
Anyone else have second thoughts when finding a seemingly "great deal" on eBay or other online store where paypal is the only method of payment available?!?
Something about paypal has never seemed quite right to me. In part due to eBay disallowing any other method of online payment allowed, not infrequent stories of frozen accounts with no reason or recourse, no phone number (or other customer service options) available until forced to do so, not to mention questionably high fees for accepting money via their 'service'...
I think the word I'm looking for is insidious. Or perhaps monopolistic?!?
Seems so very unlikely a paid technician would perform this sort of "install" unless they were deliberately trying to get fired and/or cause trouble.
Hmm... comparing launch day, to launch weekend, to 6 months sales figures? What's that all about?!
While I'm sure it's safe to say both Android and iOS are significantly outselling WP7, these numbers listed give little sense of how much. The only figure that gives some semblance of perspective is the text of the article pointing to Google's clocking 200,000 activations per day.
Granted, there are not extended sales figures as this product has just been released. Just the same, boo on poor journalism in not comparing apples to androids (launch day sales).
Looks like Remote Desktop to another system running Chrome OS.
Is there any more evidence this is real than a 30 second video which doesn't even show it booting (which in of itself would be hardly more convincing without more details).
Disappointingly not the first news site I've seen this posted on with so little to show.
When a smart phone is taken into custody, how often would the owner not also be detained?
In the event a phone is acquired by itself, isn't it possible to simply power down a phone, to be accessed in presence of signal suppression equipment (inexpensive, "off the shelf" technology)??
Isn't the Other OS feature the primary vector for PS3 hacks??
While I deploy removing a feature, is anyone really surprised that Sony would take steps to impede piracy, even at the risk of alienating a small portion of users who actually use this feature legitimately.
Honestly, won't MOST users who care about running Linux on a PS3 have a multitude of devices available which run other OSes far better than the PS3??
I'm thinking the few groups who use the PS3 for parallel processing will either downgrade the firmware or select one of the many other hardware options out there equally suited/priced/sized.
I could see myself buying an extended demo if and only if the purchase price went towards full version (somewhere near 100%). There have been plenty of games I've enjoyed 5-10 hours, purchased the damn thing, yet never get around to finishing. Were I able to purchase a reasonable portion (i.e more than 50-60%), with the option to unlock the entire game, I'd be less inclined to download the full game for free.
If only a person could win a "darwin" award, for the stupidest idea... that does't kill you, this would be in the running, hands-down!!!
Please tell me the geniuses who game up with this idea are sterile??
I'd like to think this is a fair more positive step in the right direction to curtailing cybersquatters -- those for whom there is a special place in hell... along the lines of sub-prime mortgage profiteers (and anyone else making money off the misfortuate/suffering of others) -- rather than a dangerous precedent against fair use.
Seriously, unless you run a legit business which happens to have a name similar to another, where you own ONE similar domain (maybe a few that ALL rediect to your legitimate web business), otherwise you have 0% right to own multiple domains. This is not to mention 1017 variations of a legit domain, where the squatter domains are dead-pages or fake web portals (search/news/whatever). There is no fair-use going on there.
Dual screen design is pretty, but seems like wasted space. Granted, e-ink makes a poor interface for much more than basic device control, but I don't care for having so much wasted space on what should be 99% page. Not a fan of the Kindle design and it's keyboard for the same reason.
Sticking with my Sony 505.
It's no more stupid than those people who think there was more than one Matrix movie.
Brilliant!
If I used a signature line, this would be it.
Cell phones may be bringing mobile gaming to a whole new level, but I envision surface computing will result in entirely new modes of social (face to face) gaming.
Imagine your favorite board game -- Monopoly, Risk, Life, Scrabble, whatever -- enabled for surface computing;
-No tiny plastic pieces to loose, to choke children/pets, gum up your fancy robot vacuum, or stab the unsuspecting bare foot;
-No need for a banker (who never seems to have a cash flow problem);
-No worries of spilling drinks (on your vintage, 1st edition Talisman board);
-No worry of clumsy players/pet upsetting the board (right when you were poised to cement your bid for world domination);
-No worry of loosing player position on the board;
-Instructions will be available for all players at any time, even all players at the same time (especially useful for those contentious/strategic rules disagreements);
-Games can be enjoyed for game-play and mechanic, rather than being an exercise in re-learning board setup, sorting/shuffling stacks cards and pieces (battlestar galactica anyone?);
-Multimedia animations, themes/skins, and expansions will offer endless possibilities both as enhancements to the classic games we've been playing for years and for a myriad of yet-to-be-though-of modes of social gaming which surface computing will foster.
Tabletop gaming demo was impressive. Tons of potential. I would absolutely love to see a surface computing setup for Magic the Gathering!
Are we talking books that are not available in eBook format? Wouldn't it be exceptionally easier to buy ebooks?
I imagine the time required to photograph/scan a book of any length, as well as searching for and tweaking a application to correct these images is significant. Say we're talking a PDA which doesn't support common ebook formats, in that case wouldn't it be easier and much better quality to convert ebooks into a compatible format (even if removing DRM was required). That, or drop $100 on a user eBook. Finally, if money is the concern, where time is not, there's always the download route. Again, unless we're talking books where someone hasn't already done all the work to scan to nice electronic format...
All that being said and done, best of luck. Sounds like an interesting project for it's own sake.
Unless the games infected with ads are absolutely free, I will not pay for any product containing advertisements (which are not so unobtrusive I can ignore without second thought).
Used to love going to the movies, even arriving at the movie "start" time when I expected a few interesting trailers... Now that theaters are playing commercials (mostly eye-stabingly bad adverts) before the trailers, I pretty much avoid seeing movies in the theater.
Ironic, running the risk of alienating consumers with a supplemental revenue stream. Too bad the loss in product sales are likely more than be made up with the ad revenues. : (
Been using my eBay'ed $115 Sony eReader 505 for the last year. Aside from price being a little more, sounds exactly like what you describe.
I literally don't leave home without it.
Love being able to keep up on my reading on my lunch break or any other downtime that comes along.
I have been tempted to switch to a Kindle, for it's syncing ability with my iPhone (for those times when I may have a few minutes and have left my eReader in my desk/car), but can't justify the added cost and presumably closed format. Haven't done enough research to see if one can import txt/rtf into the kindle.
With my eReader, I have downloaded all the books I physically own, re-reading my library. Formatting downloaded books can be a pain, but when in txt/rtf format it's a no brainer. I feel bad for a half-second. Then I remember I'm not interested in paying twice for content I already have purchased in a different format (unless the added cost is going directly to the author rather than a middleman). There may be a time when I buy an eBook before owning the hardcopy, but with out the ability to turn around a sell/easily give someone a DRMed eBook, there's little motivation to go that route.
I am so entirely baffle as to why people would want to view this sort of photo, let alone send such an email. I'm ashamed to be the same species.
This is really too bad. Out of every carrier I've used in the last 5 years -- Edge, US Cellular, Sprint, Verizon, T-mobile, then AT&T -- Verizon has seemed the most solid. I am always on the brink of going back to Verizon, were it not for the boring but entirely functional razr. No other phone seems worth using for cool factor other than the iPhone. Too bad it's proven to be such a trade off for reliability.
Appreciate reading this as a new story, despite the complaints of some. Have been a Blockbuster Total Access Subscriber for a few years now because of the in-store mailer swap. Nice having movies just about all the time. Haven't had cable/TV in years.
Too bad this change has gone so unannounced. I've received no email (don't use a spam filter).
I'll be putting in a complaint shortly. Unless this policy change is reversible, I'll be voicing my complaint with cancelled service.
Right on the money.