Isn't it too soon to slam ipads (and tablets in general) as a flop? There were mp3 players before the ipod, and they weren't must have. People had CD players and radios just like now they have smartphones and laptops. Were ipods an immediate must have? Let's wait for the market to mature a little.
Your word processor should be able to auto-replace specified strings. Not sure if/how you could enter the symbol for infinity, but I'm pretty sure greek is available. And "inf" isn't a killer to input anyway.
I hit 1 when I get voice mail to get to the beep. Rarely works. One friend is kind enough to say press star at the beginning of her message. On another's I need to press 3, and 1 disconnects me. I'd write more, but the point is brevity. Or at least standardization.
I work for a huge company and we do exactly this. If you offer an idea such as a process improvement that saves the company money, you get 1%. I'm not sure if there is a time limit. It might just be within the first year, but I've still seen some coworkers get sweet perks.
It seems like most commenters have it right. Why replace a low effort, efficient device like a mouse with flailing arms and constant effort?
My touch device will be the one that incorporate a touchpad, the size of a mousepad, but more responsive than anything built into a laptop. With minimal conditioning, we should be able to correlate touching a spot on our pad to clicking a spot on the screen, and the effort required is no more than pointing and clicking a mouse.
And what is ebays policy on gouging on shipping costs? What if the paper clip is packed super safely, in multiple layers of padding, driving the shipping cost into the double digits?
Or better than a paper clip, what if I offer to sell this nifty document I just created? Can somebody create a script for me to post my blank.doc every minute for $1, please?
Future proof? I know we're talking astronomically big numbers, but despite the IPv6 marketing spin, nobody can say with certainty there won't be a reason 50 years from now for each fiber on your super-electro-shirt to have its own address. Suddenly a trillion, trillion, trillion might not be so unattainable.
IPv4 is, what, 30 years old? Who anticipated this explosion back then?
I think this lawsuit could provide a legal definition for software and the common expectations of purchasing. If it widely accepted that buying a game means you can use that game on any system, as with a console game, or as with a t-shirt, fitting any person of the chosen size, then that will become legal precedent.
Then we end up with some sort of warning on the side of a software package making declarations and what else might be included and what limitations are placed on the purchaser.
Don't lawmakers and the courts usually love precedent? I expect we'll see data in the cloud afforded the same measure of privacy that things stored in my locker storage locker are afforded.
Why can't/hasn't this happened through a service offering? Where is the traction from Napster or Zune style unlimited music offerings for a monthly fee? It's obviously unfair to charge the masses rather than actual consumers, but why has this model failed so far?
I think it should happen at a label level. If I'm an indie label, I would happily offer an unlimited subscription service and probably try to deliver my music through bit torrent to minimize costs.
If, ultimately, most labels end up using a similar system, there is competition between them to sign the most valuable acts - and negotiating leverage for those acts. The entry cost is low enough that indie labels can get new music out there. The major labels have been stripped of power but can still sustain.
... eventually ending up on cellphones in developing nations.
And there is your gold mine. Perhaps right now the fragmentation will be unable to overwhelm more popular smartphone platforms, but imagine in 20 years, once every new middleclass businessman throughout Southeast Asia is using Android. Us Westerners will be in the minority.
It's not perpetual beta - it's long term planning.
No, my idea of corporate policy is to make as much money, in present value terms, with as low risk as possible.
Perhaps of good will you would support an undertaking like this as a shareholder, but imagine your entire retirement portfolio is comprised of a single company's stock and they were to propose this. It wouldn't fly.
For all the pollution problems made more apparent by the Olympics, I give the Chinese a lot of credit for innovation. Between this, their "weather altering rockets" and whatever other efforts I've missed, we can at least say they innovate.
It makes me wonder if such nationalized industry as China contains might actually be good for massive innovation. Surely no corporation would undertake an initiative like this, especially on this scale, as the profits would be far too long term and unlikely.
I planned to get around while there using short flights and discount airlines such as Easyjet and Ryanair. One low cost aggregator I found was eDreams. Now I'm afraid to book through them and plan to go direct to Easyjet and/or Ryanair.
And for what it's worth, I'm flying back on an American flight found through Cheaptickets. If I end up stranded in Bratislava, keep me in your prayers.
While TFA only states that they would withdraw tens of thousands of dollars at a time, I'm skeptical that they could have done so to the tune of $4 billion.
More likely, they stole something like $40mm - we'll say $44mm for the sake of simple math. That's $4mm per person, divided by 60 hours per week (40 hours isn't HARD labor) for 25 years.
My math puts their wages just upwards of $50/hr. Let's make them earn it.
Hell, make the punishment dollar based and say that they need to earn $4mm. Then tell them each widget they correctly build earns them $20. See how hard they are willing to work for their own freedom.
2009 - e-9/11 hits
2010 - i-Patriot Act becomes law
2013 - Internet as we know it effectively dead
2014 - High speed satellite provider launches overseas in developed, unfriendly nation (China?)
2015 - US shoots down privately owned foreign satellites??
Yes, I know that prison is supposed to be about rehabilitation, not revenge, but still...
Not entirely true. Prison is also about public safety and punishment. Given the number of repeat offenders, it's difficult to argue that the rehabilitation angle works. These guys need to be locked up for a while to ensure that they can't do it again and because every action has a consequence.
That said, hundreds of years of consecutive imprisonment is overkill, and overkill is bad. It's the reason the death penalty is rarely (1 state, I think) available in rape cases. It motivates the assailant to kill the victim, eliminating a witness. The punishment needs to fit the crime as it fits in the scale of "bad things done".
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Adult suicide rate? Employed adult suicide rate?
Isn't it too soon to slam ipads (and tablets in general) as a flop? There were mp3 players before the ipod, and they weren't must have. People had CD players and radios just like now they have smartphones and laptops. Were ipods an immediate must have? Let's wait for the market to mature a little.
Your word processor should be able to auto-replace specified strings. Not sure if/how you could enter the symbol for infinity, but I'm pretty sure greek is available. And "inf" isn't a killer to input anyway.
1. Create autonomous botnet
2. Nap
3. ???
4. Profit
I hit 1 when I get voice mail to get to the beep. Rarely works. One friend is kind enough to say press star at the beginning of her message. On another's I need to press 3, and 1 disconnects me. I'd write more, but the point is brevity. Or at least standardization.
That's what makes it authentic! If the transcription service got every word correct, you'd know something was fishy.
I own stock in Pixar, you insensitive clod!
I work for a huge company and we do exactly this. If you offer an idea such as a process improvement that saves the company money, you get 1%. I'm not sure if there is a time limit. It might just be within the first year, but I've still seen some coworkers get sweet perks.
It seems like most commenters have it right. Why replace a low effort, efficient device like a mouse with flailing arms and constant effort?
My touch device will be the one that incorporate a touchpad, the size of a mousepad, but more responsive than anything built into a laptop. With minimal conditioning, we should be able to correlate touching a spot on our pad to clicking a spot on the screen, and the effort required is no more than pointing and clicking a mouse.
Seconded!
And what is ebays policy on gouging on shipping costs? What if the paper clip is packed super safely, in multiple layers of padding, driving the shipping cost into the double digits?
Or better than a paper clip, what if I offer to sell this nifty document I just created? Can somebody create a script for me to post my blank.doc every minute for $1, please?
The US Constitution explictly states...
From wikipedia:
Which is the more reliable documentation?
Future proof? I know we're talking astronomically big numbers, but despite the IPv6 marketing spin, nobody can say with certainty there won't be a reason 50 years from now for each fiber on your super-electro-shirt to have its own address. Suddenly a trillion, trillion, trillion might not be so unattainable.
IPv4 is, what, 30 years old? Who anticipated this explosion back then?
And where are you going to get that kind of money if you're just some programmer or tiny company?
Google. They would have a lot to gain, PR and market share-wise and already have the legal team on retainer.
I think this lawsuit could provide a legal definition for software and the common expectations of purchasing. If it widely accepted that buying a game means you can use that game on any system, as with a console game, or as with a t-shirt, fitting any person of the chosen size, then that will become legal precedent.
Then we end up with some sort of warning on the side of a software package making declarations and what else might be included and what limitations are placed on the purchaser.
Don't lawmakers and the courts usually love precedent? I expect we'll see data in the cloud afforded the same measure of privacy that things stored in my locker storage locker are afforded.
Why can't/hasn't this happened through a service offering? Where is the traction from Napster or Zune style unlimited music offerings for a monthly fee? It's obviously unfair to charge the masses rather than actual consumers, but why has this model failed so far?
I think it should happen at a label level. If I'm an indie label, I would happily offer an unlimited subscription service and probably try to deliver my music through bit torrent to minimize costs.
If, ultimately, most labels end up using a similar system, there is competition between them to sign the most valuable acts - and negotiating leverage for those acts. The entry cost is low enough that indie labels can get new music out there. The major labels have been stripped of power but can still sustain.
... eventually ending up on cellphones in developing nations.
And there is your gold mine. Perhaps right now the fragmentation will be unable to overwhelm more popular smartphone platforms, but imagine in 20 years, once every new middleclass businessman throughout Southeast Asia is using Android. Us Westerners will be in the minority.
It's not perpetual beta - it's long term planning.
No, my idea of corporate policy is to make as much money, in present value terms, with as low risk as possible.
Perhaps of good will you would support an undertaking like this as a shareholder, but imagine your entire retirement portfolio is comprised of a single company's stock and they were to propose this. It wouldn't fly.
For all the pollution problems made more apparent by the Olympics, I give the Chinese a lot of credit for innovation. Between this, their "weather altering rockets" and whatever other efforts I've missed, we can at least say they innovate.
It makes me wonder if such nationalized industry as China contains might actually be good for massive innovation. Surely no corporation would undertake an initiative like this, especially on this scale, as the profits would be far too long term and unlikely.
I planned to get around while there using short flights and discount airlines such as Easyjet and Ryanair. One low cost aggregator I found was eDreams. Now I'm afraid to book through them and plan to go direct to Easyjet and/or Ryanair.
And for what it's worth, I'm flying back on an American flight found through Cheaptickets. If I end up stranded in Bratislava, keep me in your prayers.
Won't you people think of the LOLCATS?!
While TFA only states that they would withdraw tens of thousands of dollars at a time, I'm skeptical that they could have done so to the tune of $4 billion.
More likely, they stole something like $40mm - we'll say $44mm for the sake of simple math. That's $4mm per person, divided by 60 hours per week (40 hours isn't HARD labor) for 25 years.
My math puts their wages just upwards of $50/hr. Let's make them earn it.
Hell, make the punishment dollar based and say that they need to earn $4mm. Then tell them each widget they correctly build earns them $20. See how hard they are willing to work for their own freedom.
2009 - e-9/11 hits
2010 - i-Patriot Act becomes law
2013 - Internet as we know it effectively dead
2014 - High speed satellite provider launches overseas in developed, unfriendly nation (China?)
2015 - US shoots down privately owned foreign satellites??
This is exactly the sort of case where I wish the US had hard labor as a form of punishment. Let them work off the money they stole.
Yes, I know that prison is supposed to be about rehabilitation, not revenge, but still...
Not entirely true. Prison is also about public safety and punishment. Given the number of repeat offenders, it's difficult to argue that the rehabilitation angle works. These guys need to be locked up for a while to ensure that they can't do it again and because every action has a consequence. That said, hundreds of years of consecutive imprisonment is overkill, and overkill is bad. It's the reason the death penalty is rarely (1 state, I think) available in rape cases. It motivates the assailant to kill the victim, eliminating a witness. The punishment needs to fit the crime as it fits in the scale of "bad things done".