The Milestone offered by Telus is the DROID using GSM. I have it and I'm quite pleased with it. The only thing I want to know about 2.1 is whether they fixed voice calling via bluetooth.
While I can't say for sure they won't go after others, something the article doesn't mention is the fact that i4i went to MS with their technology originally to try and get MS to include it in Office. MS said they weren't interested, and then went ahead and used the technology anyway.
I'm not a fan of software patents, so I can't really root for i4i, but I don't exactly feel any sympathy when MS takes their technology without asking and then essentially acts the bully and says "well, if you don't like it, sue us".
For teams working on projects within an organization I can see this being a killer app. Keeping the documents together with the discussion of those documents is useful (I know other office type apps attempt this, but more as a hack bolted onto a word processor or something, as opposed to part of the original design as it is in Google Wave)
The question will really be adoption. Which, I imagine, is part of the reason Google is open sourcing it. If it becomes something that people find useful in a business environment, then it'll become common enough that it'll get used at home as well.
And although the 40+ crowd will likely have problems getting used to it, the upcoming generation who grew up with email, IM, online photos, facebook, etc... won't have a hard time adapting to this.
I would figure that it's video... specifically, probably family home movies. If that's the case, I could see it getting up to 500GB taping birthdays, Christmas, family get togethers, vacations, etc...
And those are the type of things that become almost more precious with time as opposed to less, so it's doubtful he'd look back on it and decide it wasn't important.
Exactly the same thing I found. I can't stand thumb controllers for most games, so if it's a FPS I'll play it on my computer.
Besides which, the Wii is a great party console. I realize the stereotype of Slashdot is that a good portion are sitting alone in their parent's basement anyway, so maybe they don't care, but you get a group of people over, and people will play the Wii, and will play games besides Guitar Hero and Rock Band (about the only 2 party games that actually exist for the other consoles), whereas the only people you'll see playing the 360 or PS3 will be hardcore gamers.
And so I don't blame the developers, but I DO blame the maintainers of Kubuntu for making it the default for 8.04. Why include something so buggy in what is supposed to be a user friendly KDE based OS.
You'll notice they're not suing companies with lots of money who might fight back. I imagine the idea is that smaller companies will just pay up because it's cheaper than fighting it.
Because of this, and it being mozilla-specific for now, websites that currently use tracking URL's will see no value in switching over.
Exactly, because the specification for ping is wrong for backwards compatability. What they should do is have a separate tag to indicate where the href actually gets redirected to like RedirectTo="www.externalSite.com", that way users who support it could just ping the original href and go to wherever the RedirectTo pointed, and users without the support would continue to get the regular redirect url.
Anybody who thinks that getting our energy from nuclear power doesn't realize how dependent modern society is on oil.
Most food is produced via the use of petrolium based pesticides.
You know all those things in the stores that you buy that contain plastic? Where do you think the plastic comes from?
We have an infrastructure built for cars. Unless you get a real alternative fuel source (hydrogen is not an answer as it's currently produced because it requires more energy to produce it than it returns) and convince everybody to buy new cars that use that energy source... and retrofit all the gas stations to supply the new fuel, you'll be dependent on oil for quite some time to come.
DoCoMo's research is to transfer data via the body, which IBM also has done research (and most likely has some patents on). The MS patent is to power non-powered devices by having a power supply somewhere else that transmits the current through the skin. Similar, but different.
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The Milestone offered by Telus is the DROID using GSM. I have it and I'm quite pleased with it. The only thing I want to know about 2.1 is whether they fixed voice calling via bluetooth.
While I can't say for sure they won't go after others, something the article doesn't mention is the fact that i4i went to MS with their technology originally to try and get MS to include it in Office. MS said they weren't interested, and then went ahead and used the technology anyway. I'm not a fan of software patents, so I can't really root for i4i, but I don't exactly feel any sympathy when MS takes their technology without asking and then essentially acts the bully and says "well, if you don't like it, sue us".
For teams working on projects within an organization I can see this being a killer app. Keeping the documents together with the discussion of those documents is useful (I know other office type apps attempt this, but more as a hack bolted onto a word processor or something, as opposed to part of the original design as it is in Google Wave) The question will really be adoption. Which, I imagine, is part of the reason Google is open sourcing it. If it becomes something that people find useful in a business environment, then it'll become common enough that it'll get used at home as well. And although the 40+ crowd will likely have problems getting used to it, the upcoming generation who grew up with email, IM, online photos, facebook, etc... won't have a hard time adapting to this.
"10,000! We could almost buy our own ship for that!" "Yeah, but who's going to fly it kid? You?"
I would figure that it's video... specifically, probably family home movies. If that's the case, I could see it getting up to 500GB taping birthdays, Christmas, family get togethers, vacations, etc... And those are the type of things that become almost more precious with time as opposed to less, so it's doubtful he'd look back on it and decide it wasn't important.
Exactly the same thing I found. I can't stand thumb controllers for most games, so if it's a FPS I'll play it on my computer. Besides which, the Wii is a great party console. I realize the stereotype of Slashdot is that a good portion are sitting alone in their parent's basement anyway, so maybe they don't care, but you get a group of people over, and people will play the Wii, and will play games besides Guitar Hero and Rock Band (about the only 2 party games that actually exist for the other consoles), whereas the only people you'll see playing the 360 or PS3 will be hardcore gamers.
And so I don't blame the developers, but I DO blame the maintainers of Kubuntu for making it the default for 8.04. Why include something so buggy in what is supposed to be a user friendly KDE based OS.
You'll notice they're not suing companies with lots of money who might fight back. I imagine the idea is that smaller companies will just pay up because it's cheaper than fighting it.
Anybody who thinks that getting our energy from nuclear power doesn't realize how dependent modern society is on oil. Most food is produced via the use of petrolium based pesticides. You know all those things in the stores that you buy that contain plastic? Where do you think the plastic comes from? We have an infrastructure built for cars. Unless you get a real alternative fuel source (hydrogen is not an answer as it's currently produced because it requires more energy to produce it than it returns) and convince everybody to buy new cars that use that energy source... and retrofit all the gas stations to supply the new fuel, you'll be dependent on oil for quite some time to come.
I downloaded The Return of the King before it came out on DVD. But I also saw the movie in the theater opening day and three other times after that
See, if you hadn't downloaded it you would have gone to see the movie 5 times instead of only 4!! You owe them $8.50!!
DoCoMo's research is to transfer data via the body, which IBM also has done research (and most likely has some patents on). The MS patent is to power non-powered devices by having a power supply somewhere else that transmits the current through the skin. Similar, but different.