Why are manufacturers paying this extortion rather than banding together and trying to fight it like any other patent troll?
It could never be that their lawyers and engineers are telling them the patents are significant and valid. It could never be that they routinely cross-license patents with Microsoft.
As long as we cannot prevent criminals from having guns
There are two types of criminals with guns, the amateur and the pro. One is unpredictable, the other has experience. Neither play fair. Neither leaned their skills on the target range. Both will do their very best to take you by surprise.
You can't keep a gun close at night without the risk of shooting your wife, your kid and your cat by accident.
people need to be armed in order to meet the challenge on an equal footing.
There is no equal footing.
The real restraints on the police and military are political and social. if it comes down to a test of raw firepower, material ad resources, you lose.
How long before we start seeing missiles with highly polished chrome finish on the outside?
How reflective is chrome (or any other coating) at the frequency of the laser? What are the chances the laser will simply "punch" or "torch" its way through the finish?
Why go with a company who has been making the news for broken games and abrasive customer service? Are executives at Disney really ok with taking such a big risk on such a valuable property?
There is no risk.
2,100 rants posted to Amazon.com hasn't broken SimCity's hold on the top ten bestseller lists in PC games.
Adobe underestimates how much it benefits from piracy. If poor college students can't cut their teeth on the full Adobe suite, they're likely to learn how to use something else.
There are plausible FOSS alternatives for the stand-alone office suite (circa 1995). Competing with the office system which successfully which integrates on-line and off-line components and services is much tougher problem.
At a cost of $20 per device, Aislinn Dewey and Victor Grigas (who works for Wikimedia) are trying to raise funds to buy up the company's inventory and ship WikiReaders to kids in places without Internet connectivity.
Will the reader stand up to the physical abuse it will receive?
Rapid attrition translates into much higher costs and limited availability. I don't altogether trust the geek's affection for dirt-cheap gadgets,
Is the Wikipedia written at a grade school reading level?
How closely is the English language Wikipedia tied to the third world curricula and classroom?
Significant deployments of the OLPC laptop are almost unknown outside of Hispanic speaking Central and South America.
There has to be a reason for that --- and the most likely place to begin searching for an answer lies in the cultural biases of the Western donor.
John Wood, founder of Room to Read, emphasizes affordability and scalability over high-tech solutions. While in favor of the One Laptop per Child initiative for providing education to children in the developing world at a cheaper rate, he has pointed out that a $2,000 library can serve 400 children, costing just $5 a child to bring access to a wide range of books in the local languages (such as Khmer or Nepali) and English; also, a $10,000 school can serve 400---500 children ($20---$25 a child). According to Wood, these are more appropriate solutions for education in the dense forests of Vietnam or rural Cambodia. [2006]
Mantoloking is a Jersey Shore community situated on the Barnegat Peninsula, also known as Barnegat Bay Island, a long, narrow barrier island that separates Barnegat Bay from the Atlantic Ocean.
As of the 2000 Census, Mantoloking was the wealthiest community in the state of New Jersey with a per capita money income of $114,017 as of 1999, an increase of 29.8% from the $87,830 recorded in 1989. It was ranked as the 15th highest-income place in the United States.
Even the gun-nuttiest people I know subscribe to the 'Don't point a loaded gun at something you wouldn't be happy shooting
This boy was five years old.
"My First Rifle" is sold in the glowing day-bright colors of a child's toy.
I was at a house warming party last month where a kid that age was running around and annoying everyone with a toy plastic rifle the same size and coloring.
It never occurred to me that it could have been the real thing,
My kid will be five soon, and I thought it would be a great present!!!
I don't what to think when a post like this gets modded up funny.
A young boy in Kentucky has accidentally shot his two-year-old sister in the chest, killing her. He was playing with a rifle he got for his birthday. The shooting happened in Burkesville, Kentucky as the boy was playing with the 22-calibre 'youth model' gun when it was not realised that the gun was loaded. The children's uncle, David Mann, described the accident as 'something you can't prepare for'
Even if Google Glass is only used by security guards, police officers, dectectives, tabloid jurnalists, and debt collectors is will be a success.
Professions in which unobstructed vision, situational awareness, and eye contact with the subject are all-important. The picture may not be worth the epic beat-down that put you in hospital.
Wait, products must solve a tangible problem in order to catch on? Well shit, that sucks for twitter, facebook, AND the tablet market.
But Twitter, Facebook, and the tablet do solve problems.
It's just that they aren't the geek's problems or problems the geek understands.
A social networking service is a platform to build social networks or social relations among people who, for example, share interests, activities, backgrounds, or real-life connections.
We begin with the Slashdot tradition of promoting an event on the day of the event.
There are four events scheduled, one in Bangladesh.
The FOSS Bangladesh are suspending their website (www.fossbd.org) with an image banner, focusing the Day Against DRM-2013 and its cruel effects on IT world, activated from today, 30 April, 2013. Join us on a roadside stands as a Human ties with banners, plackerds and festoons in front of the TSC area at "Raju Circle". As it to exposes the Day Aganists DRM and why we are against DRM and DRM on HTML5.
Slashdot Mirror
That's when you get fifty people who know who you are, go into a judge's chambers and let them all testify that you are you under oath.
Not so easy to do as you grow older and the need for ID becomes more urgent.
The friends and relatives who would be most knowledgeable and persuasive are now quite elderly themselves, diseased or have moved out of state.
So who is going to teach Gladys from accounting how to store her contacts' PGP keys and encrypt her email?
Not to be mention the fact that Gladys is a temp and Harriet is an intern and both will gone within a week.
Why do you hate trees? What did trees ever do to you?
The geek will droll over his 3D printer and forget that paper crafts are millennia older. Creative Park
The hard copy doesn't need an e-text reader or a digital frame and a battery for display. This makes them far more useful than you might think.
I wouldn't have it as my only computer, but over all I think it will make one heck of a good momputer.
Mom has been using a computer since the mid-eighties or early nineties and is making her own choices.
The patents are from the Jurassic age, in software years.
Time is relative.
The "bleeding edge" tech so beloved by the geek can cost too much or be far from ready for deployment.
Why are manufacturers paying this extortion rather than banding together and trying to fight it like any other patent troll?
It could never be that their lawyers and engineers are telling them the patents are significant and valid. It could never be that they routinely cross-license patents with Microsoft.
As long as we cannot prevent criminals from having guns
There are two types of criminals with guns, the amateur and the pro. One is unpredictable, the other has experience. Neither play fair. Neither leaned their skills on the target range. Both will do their very best to take you by surprise.
You can't keep a gun close at night without the risk of shooting your wife, your kid and your cat by accident.
people need to be armed in order to meet the challenge on an equal footing.
There is no equal footing.
The real restraints on the police and military are political and social. if it comes down to a test of raw firepower, material ad resources, you lose.
How long before we start seeing missiles with highly polished chrome finish on the outside?
How reflective is chrome (or any other coating) at the frequency of the laser? What are the chances the laser will simply "punch" or "torch" its way through the finish?
It's 'destruction' is still likely to rain down debris nearby.
Which would you prefer? Debris or an explosion?
Well, it's either the law enforcement or the record companies got hold of the user database.
More likely to be an inside job. More likely and more profitable.
I feel sorry for the kids graduating now - if they need to touch up one photo in PS, they'll have to pay $20/mo for a year = $240 for that casual use.
Photoshop isn't a tool for the casual user --- and never has been.
If it's crunch time and you need the pro's $2700 tool kit for a month or three months then rent it for a month or three months,
i think some one forgot the 'B' at the beginning of the first word.
This has me wondering how much sci-fi the geek has actually read ---- vesus the half dozen or so franchise products he knows from movies and tv.
Why go with a company who has been making the news for broken games and abrasive customer service? Are executives at Disney really ok with taking such a big risk on such a valuable property?
There is no risk.
2,100 rants posted to Amazon.com hasn't broken SimCity's hold on the top ten bestseller lists in PC games.
EA promises to do for Lucas Arts what Disney pledges to do for Lucasfilm
You hear any Marvel Comics fan complaining about Disney? Didn't think so.
Adobe underestimates how much it benefits from piracy. If poor college students can't cut their teeth on the full Adobe suite, they're likely to learn how to use something else.
Adobe Creative Cloud: Student and Teacher Edition
$20/mo for access to every pro grade tool and service Adobe has to offer.
Microsoft said they would be doing this years ago (after people found ways to avoid paying MS Tax).
I wonder how much Microsoft Rent will be for Windows & Office.
You only have to ask:
Office 365 Home Premium
Office 365 Education
Office 365 Government
Microsoft Office 365 for Health Organizations
There are of, course, plans for the generic small and midsize business and the enterprise.
Office 365 has had a very successful launch: Microsoft: Office 365 Cloud Now $1 Billion Business
There are plausible FOSS alternatives for the stand-alone office suite (circa 1995). Competing with the office system which successfully which integrates on-line and off-line components and services is much tougher problem.
At a cost of $20 per device, Aislinn Dewey and Victor Grigas (who works for Wikimedia) are trying to raise funds to buy up the company's inventory and ship WikiReaders to kids in places without Internet connectivity.
Will the reader stand up to the physical abuse it will receive?
Rapid attrition translates into much higher costs and limited availability. I don't altogether trust the geek's affection for dirt-cheap gadgets,
Is the Wikipedia written at a grade school reading level?
How closely is the English language Wikipedia tied to the third world curricula and classroom?
Significant deployments of the OLPC laptop are almost unknown outside of Hispanic speaking Central and South America.
There has to be a reason for that --- and the most likely place to begin searching for an answer lies in the cultural biases of the Western donor.
John Wood, founder of Room to Read, emphasizes affordability and scalability over high-tech solutions. While in favor of the One Laptop per Child initiative for providing education to children in the developing world at a cheaper rate, he has pointed out that a $2,000 library can serve 400 children, costing just $5 a child to bring access to a wide range of books in the local languages (such as Khmer or Nepali) and English; also, a $10,000 school can serve 400---500 children ($20---$25 a child). According to Wood, these are more appropriate solutions for education in the dense forests of Vietnam or rural Cambodia. [2006]
One Laptop per Child
The need for a wide range of books can't be emphasized enough.
Tell them to trust IT to make the right decision for them.
Just research the best option and present that. Don't give them a choice between the ideal solution and a runner up.
Concealing choices does not build trust.
Mantoloking is a Jersey Shore community situated on the Barnegat Peninsula, also known as Barnegat Bay Island, a long, narrow barrier island that separates Barnegat Bay from the Atlantic Ocean.
As of the 2000 Census, Mantoloking was the wealthiest community in the state of New Jersey with a per capita money income of $114,017 as of 1999, an increase of 29.8% from the $87,830 recorded in 1989. It was ranked as the 15th highest-income place in the United States.
Mantoloking, New Jersey
Population 300. As a summer resort, 5,000.
Anything you build here will be exposed and vulnerable, I am not sure that trenching cable solves that problem.
Most of what you build here will see little or no use eight to nine months out of the year --- and little or no return on your investment.
Even the gun-nuttiest people I know subscribe to the 'Don't point a loaded gun at something you wouldn't be happy shooting
This boy was five years old.
"My First Rifle" is sold in the glowing day-bright colors of a child's toy.
I was at a house warming party last month where a kid that age was running around and annoying everyone with a toy plastic rifle the same size and coloring.
It never occurred to me that it could have been the real thing,
My kid will be five soon, and I thought it would be a great present!!!
I don't what to think when a post like this gets modded up funny.
A young boy in Kentucky has accidentally shot his two-year-old sister in the chest, killing her. He was playing with a rifle he got for his birthday. The shooting happened in Burkesville, Kentucky as the boy was playing with the 22-calibre 'youth model' gun when it was not realised that the gun was loaded. The children's uncle, David Mann, described the accident as 'something you can't prepare for'
Five-year-old shoots and kills toddler sister with birthday present rifle --- video [May 3]
Here's How the Rifle That Just Killed a 2-Year-Old Girl Is Marketed for Kids
The Crickett website is down.
still, it's not that easy to find brick&mortar normal stores which sell 'em.
Cube 3D Printers & Supplies
Even if Google Glass is only used by security guards, police officers, dectectives, tabloid jurnalists, and debt collectors is will be a success.
Professions in which unobstructed vision, situational awareness, and eye contact with the subject are all-important. The picture may not be worth the epic beat-down that put you in hospital.
Wait, products must solve a tangible problem in order to catch on? Well shit, that sucks for twitter, facebook, AND the tablet market.
But Twitter, Facebook, and the tablet do solve problems.
It's just that they aren't the geek's problems or problems the geek understands.
A social networking service is a platform to build social networks or social relations among people who, for example, share interests, activities, backgrounds, or real-life connections.
Social networking service
EA makes every day "Fuck You, You're Going To Buy Our Games Anyway" Day.
Exhibit A:
Best Sellers in PC-compatible Games
We begin with the Slashdot tradition of promoting an event on the day of the event.
There are four events scheduled, one in Bangladesh.
The FOSS Bangladesh are suspending their website (www.fossbd.org) with an image banner, focusing the Day Against DRM-2013 and its cruel effects on IT world, activated from today, 30 April, 2013. Join us on a roadside stands as a Human ties with banners, plackerds and festoons in front of the TSC area at "Raju Circle". As it to exposes the Day Aganists DRM and why we are against DRM and DRM on HTML5.
Day Against DRM - May 3rd, 2013
You cannot make this stuff up.
There will be the inevitable petitions to the W3C and handouts outside the Microsoft Store in Seattle and that is pretty much it.
I was pleased to discover that the EFF page for the International Day Against DRM links to 2009's Windows7 Sins. campaign.
Who can forget --- Windows 7 Sins --- The Video?