The worst car I ever owned was a VW. My experiences were so bad that I refuse to purchase another one. Just when I'm tempted to look at their models again, a friend of mine starts having trouble with his late model VW electrical system.
Another friend of mine swears by his VW, but he has only had it for a year. I'll watch his problems unfold.
Let's say I started an open source project to create "novel software". What prevents someone else from filing a patent on "novel software" imediately after I make the project known? There really isn't prior art yet, and the troll can wait for the project to produce something before making a claim. It makes me believe that I'd better file a patent application as soon as the project is launched, just in case...
I'd rather see more work on removing software patents than rearranging the deck furniture on the USPTO Titantic.
The patent system moved knowlege into society by allowing the inventor to continue to profit from his invention. The GP is correct that small inventors will suffer from this rule unless congress and the USPTO lower the costs associated with patents.
The first-to-invent system allowed the inventor to seek capital with limited protection since in theory he has evidence of prior art.
I think it is ridiculous to suggest that it is okay to have a system that favors corporations over individuals. Of course, we always had such a system and this rule change finally relieves the fear of someone being able to overturn a purchased patent.
I think he is fearing that without patent protection someone else could patent the invention and then collect royalties from the original inventor. He has good cause to fear since someone who couldn't afford the patent would not likely be able to afford protection within the court system.
Maybe "BD.HongTouTou.A" and "BD.HongTouTou.B" propagate within a server hosting the app market place by infecting the android packages being distributed. A mother virus called "BD.HongTouTou" that injects its payload of "BD.HongTouTou.A" or "BD.HongTouTou.B" into android packages. I find this unlikely.
This should serve as an example of why you should be wary of what app marketplace you use.
Well we have a republic form of government with democratically elected officials.
The distinction being that as a republic, we do not have mob rule. There are rules in place that protect the minority party from being railroaded by the party in power. The democrats in Wisconsin are taking advantage of a quorum rule, written in the Wisconsin constitution, to prevent a bill from quickly passing and going to the governor's desk for signing. They are allowing time for public debate.
Republicans know this since they are skilled at using legislative procedures, filibustering, and in 2009 used the same tactic to deny a quorum in New York State Senate.
While I do appreciate you coming to my defense, engineers in general know how to write. Believe it or not so do I.
I just spend considerably less time proofing my writing prior to hitting submit on slashdot than I do when I'm working. I don't take AC trolls too seriously, so if my misplacing an ' that changes a possessive "its" into a contraction meaning "it is", or my incorrect usage of 'is' instead of 'are' when talking about the elderly as a group sends him off the deep end then he has bigger issues than my writing skills.
I suspect he is overly sensitive about the outsourcing of engineers and he lashed out because he mistook my inattentive posting as "english as a second language".
Thanks again _0xd0ad.
Short version for the AC troll: It's slashdot. Who gives a shit?
I like the wireless token idea better, since this keyboard doesn't appear to be washable. I love hospitals that work hard to reduce infection rates and then decides to install keyboards that are prone to collect dust next to patient's beds.
I think you meant marketing instead of PR, and it's marketing that makes us desire the newest model of just about anything.
No I haven't fallen for the PR, but thanks for the concern.
Anyway, Google doesn't need marketing to make us buy the newest Android handset/tablet. We just assume that maybe they got it working correctly on the newer models:P
The body's ability to regulate it's core body temperature diminishes with age. This is why the elderly is more prone to hypothermia in the winter and heat strokes in the summer. Blankets may help but the lower metabolism that the elderly may have would make it necessary to have an additional heat source to help warm the blankets initially, recover any heat being lost through the blankets, or when they have to get out from underneath the blankets to relieve themselves.
Loss of heat when the elderly is present is an emergency situation and warrants an effort to find alternative accommodations.
I do. Unfortunately I'll be away from home for quite a while and traditional books are expensive where I'm going. The last time I was there it cost me $35 for a paperback version of Dexter. At least with an e-reader I can purchase an ebook from the states and download it for much less than I can buy it at the only bookstore within 1500 km or worse at an international airport newsstand.
Also the other books I read are quite thick and I've been saving money and weight by purchasing the ebook version from people like "Pragmatic Programmers".
You have to excuse him. He wanted a replacement for Microsoft's Tablet PC at a much lower price, and you wanted a dedicated media consumer appliance that works out of the box the way you like it.
I don't know why the two camps can't get along on Slashdot, but here we are.
Wow you are so hard up against Apple that you had to rush out and spew nonsense without even understanding what I was talking about? No wonder you posted as an AC.
Go read the multitude of reviews about the Viewsonic gTablet 10.1, almost all of them talk about how poorly the tablet runs with its stock ROM and suggest that it is better with an alternative ROM from xda and others.
Here you come and offer a Galaxy S for comparison, too bad it costs more than the wifi only iPad while only offering only a few features that I'm interested in. Not to mention a shorter battery life.
Unlike Sonny Yatsen who understood what I was talking about and suggested that I look at the Nook Color for $250 since I would be rooting anyway.
By the way, I feel sorry for the folks that place a high value on widgets versus other features of the device. It means that they are more interested in the shiny interface than the people that they ridicule.
I have widgets on my Android phone that I don't really use, and I can do heavy work with my eeePC running Ubuntu. I just wanted something to read books and play games that don't come stock on a e-book reader using a form factor that was bigger than my phone yet didn't require the tray table taking up the valuable space in coach.
My daughter has one that she uses for reading, and she is happy with its response.
I heard there was a way of booting an alternate firmware version from the MicroSD without messing with the original stock nook ROM. If this proves to be true, than I might consider running out and spending $250 on something that may not get used much. Then again, I could just use the stock ROM and read a book during the flight.
Yea I know. I noticed this behavior when the Droid was coming out. Evidently the only way Google is able to get hardware vendors on board is to offer some exclusivity to them prior to release. I always wondered how HTC felt being "shafted" by the exclusive deal with Motorola after they were the ones that put Android phones in the hands of the consumer.
It's as if Google is using "open source development" as a facade to sell Android to us geeks. It's not really fully open sourced if we are only allowed to fix bugs or add features after the initial version release. Then again we are only fixing bugs and adding features to OUR phones, since the average non-rooting consumer will most likely be stuck with the initial version of the OS that came with their phone for the life of the contract.
Still it is the more open than iOS, but less open than Meego.
I'm pretty happy with my G-Tablet running a custom TnT-Lite ROM (well, "custom" in the sense that it uncustomized all the crap that Viewsonic put in the OS). The surprising thing for me was that Dolphin HD was the main app I find myself using on it... in preference to all of the crappy app-ified versions of several services. Flash videos and stuff work great, much better than my eeePC (probably due to the nVidia stuff).
Here's my delima which probably mirror others. I'd like to have a tablet PC to take with me on a very long (more than 24 hours from the first plane to the last plane) flight itinerary. I can get a Viewsonic gTablet 10.1 for $350, spend an afternoon installing one of the xda custom ROMs and get a crippled experience in exchange for getting a 2.2 version of Android working on an otherwise fine piece of hardware (WTF Viewsonic?). Or I can spend a $100 more and get an iPad (that may soon be replaced with iPad2) but works out of the box with all the apps that would keep me entertained and somewhat productive until I land and able to use my laptop.
I'd like to play with an Android tablet, since I have an Android phone *but* my time is worth more than the $100 I'd save. So I wait...
In other words: They are able to do their jobs now with what they have and you want to "help" them continue doing their jobs by making them learn something new.
I made money modernizing offices, and the attitude you have shown is counter-productive.
The number one error that office managers seem to make is buying a PC with a word processor and a spreadsheet program and installing it on each employee's desk. After which they instruct the employee to learn how to use it, and quickly go to their superior and brag about how they modernized the office. The mistake being that no effort was made to understand why the employee was so productive, and giving the employee a general purpose tool to replace what they were accustomed to using. This results in the employee having to learn something new "to make someone else's job easier" and the employee "knowing" that the office manager is trying to make himself indispensable by introducing something into the workplace that only he understands.
In one of the offices that I "modernized" there was an employee that used a typewriter to keep up with the inventory. It worked flawless for him, and since the trucks arrived very early in the morning, he had all workday to do the tallies. He would white out the totals and add new truckloads to the bottom of the list, cross out the truckloads that were no longer at the warehouse, add up all the numbers, and put a new total at the bottom of the list. He would then make photocopies of his "master list" and send them to the other office workers. He did this every day for the past 15 years, and he was able to do all this quickly (much faster than I thought possible). I was able to "win him over" by creating a specialized spreadsheet application that allowed him to continue to work the way he was accustomed to, and he saw that the instantaneous totals made his job easier. The key was to make the software conform to the worker.
Today I see the reverse being done. Terminals that had forms that the data entry clerk could quickly fill in are being replaced with window machines running software that don't even come close to being the same thing. Worse I've seen terminals being replaced by windows machines running terminal emulators. This shows a lack of thought by IT. No wonder employees despise them. Of course IT people are accustomed to windows, so they don't see why the employees are so problematic...
I did this all in the 80's when personal computers in the office were new. I'd thought people would have it easier today.
Unless something changes, you'll give up your Netflix streaming when you trade your iPad for a Android tablet. I'm hoping that Netflix will make a honeycomb version of their player.
This is a bill HR. 68 [loc.gov] "To amend the Communications Act of 1934 to prohibit Federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting after fiscal year 2013. "
That seems unconstitutional. It seeks to strip the 2014 (and beyond) house of representatives of an ability that is specifically mentioned in Section 8 and clause 1 of the constitution which states "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States" not to mention clause 3 which states To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;"
What I'm trying to say is how can the current house of representatives take away a future's house of representatives ability to fund anything (which in this case being the Corporation for Public Broadcasting) which is described as one of the functions of that body by the constitution without a constitutional amendment?
I suspect they can't.
It's well within their power to allocate the government's money during this session, but trying to dictate what a future congress can do seems like a stretch.
Funny how the party that sells themselves as adhering to the constitution always seems to be the ones that do everything possible outside the bounds of the constitution...
The electroworld site seems iffy, mainly because 3 of their offerings appear to be counterfeit iPads running Android.
No offense intended, but this is why I take the sub $200 tablet examples with a huge grain of salt. It just has the feel of "you can buy a similar watch much cheaper if you go to the stranger selling them on the sidewalk." What could possibly go wrong?
Seriously, it doesn't matter. If the power went out in your house and it was pitch black, would you sprint through the house and down the basement steps to get some candles? No, you wouldn't you can't see. You would move as slowly as you could to feel your way around.
You assume that she was blinded by the sun during her entire drive. It is entirely possible that the sun didn't play a role until she reached the part of the street (due to a curb or incline) that the accident took place. Coincidently another accident took place for the exact same reason moments earlier.
It could be a function of reaction time (The timespan separating the sun blinding light affecting the driver and the driver slowing the car). Beas would have been at a disadvantage since she would have a shorter timespan to react than the drivers involved in the previous accident since their cars are still there.
It could very well be the case of people in an accident keeping their cars in harms way after an accident, instead of moving their cars somewhere safe. I know I get irritated when minor fender benders cause traffic congestions because they act like CSI will come and inspect the scene of the accident.
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The worst car I ever owned was a VW. My experiences were so bad that I refuse to purchase another one. Just when I'm tempted to look at their models again, a friend of mine starts having trouble with his late model VW electrical system.
Another friend of mine swears by his VW, but he has only had it for a year. I'll watch his problems unfold.
I fear this rule change is open for abuse.
Let's say I started an open source project to create "novel software". What prevents someone else from filing a patent on "novel software" imediately after I make the project known? There really isn't prior art yet, and the troll can wait for the project to produce something before making a claim. It makes me believe that I'd better file a patent application as soon as the project is launched, just in case...
I'd rather see more work on removing software patents than rearranging the deck furniture on the USPTO Titantic.
The patent system moved knowlege into society by allowing the inventor to continue to profit from his invention. The GP is correct that small inventors will suffer from this rule unless congress and the USPTO lower the costs associated with patents.
The first-to-invent system allowed the inventor to seek capital with limited protection since in theory he has evidence of prior art.
I think it is ridiculous to suggest that it is okay to have a system that favors corporations over individuals. Of course, we always had such a system and this rule change finally relieves the fear of someone being able to overturn a purchased patent.
I think he is fearing that without patent protection someone else could patent the invention and then collect royalties from the original inventor. He has good cause to fear since someone who couldn't afford the patent would not likely be able to afford protection within the court system.
I agree that this sounds more like a trojan.
Maybe "BD.HongTouTou.A" and "BD.HongTouTou.B" propagate within a server hosting the app market place by infecting the android packages being distributed. A mother virus called "BD.HongTouTou" that injects its payload of "BD.HongTouTou.A" or "BD.HongTouTou.B" into android packages. I find this unlikely.
This should serve as an example of why you should be wary of what app marketplace you use.
Well we have a republic form of government with democratically elected officials.
The distinction being that as a republic, we do not have mob rule. There are rules in place that protect the minority party from being railroaded by the party in power. The democrats in Wisconsin are taking advantage of a quorum rule, written in the Wisconsin constitution, to prevent a bill from quickly passing and going to the governor's desk for signing. They are allowing time for public debate.
Republicans know this since they are skilled at using legislative procedures, filibustering, and in 2009 used the same tactic to deny a quorum in New York State Senate.
While I do appreciate you coming to my defense, engineers in general know how to write. Believe it or not so do I.
I just spend considerably less time proofing my writing prior to hitting submit on slashdot than I do when I'm working. I don't take AC trolls too seriously, so if my misplacing an ' that changes a possessive "its" into a contraction meaning "it is", or my incorrect usage of 'is' instead of 'are' when talking about the elderly as a group sends him off the deep end then he has bigger issues than my writing skills.
I suspect he is overly sensitive about the outsourcing of engineers and he lashed out because he mistook my inattentive posting as "english as a second language".
Thanks again _0xd0ad.
Short version for the AC troll: It's slashdot. Who gives a shit?
I like the wireless token idea better, since this keyboard doesn't appear to be washable. I love hospitals that work hard to reduce infection rates and then decides to install keyboards that are prone to collect dust next to patient's beds.
Little did he know that were talking about cereal.
I think you meant marketing instead of PR, and it's marketing that makes us desire the newest model of just about anything.
No I haven't fallen for the PR, but thanks for the concern.
Anyway, Google doesn't need marketing to make us buy the newest Android handset/tablet. We just assume that maybe they got it working correctly on the newer models :P
I don't think stamina was the right word.
The body's ability to regulate it's core body temperature diminishes with age. This is why the elderly is more prone to hypothermia in the winter and heat strokes in the summer. Blankets may help but the lower metabolism that the elderly may have would make it necessary to have an additional heat source to help warm the blankets initially, recover any heat being lost through the blankets, or when they have to get out from underneath the blankets to relieve themselves.
Loss of heat when the elderly is present is an emergency situation and warrants an effort to find alternative accommodations.
I do. Unfortunately I'll be away from home for quite a while and traditional books are expensive where I'm going. The last time I was there it cost me $35 for a paperback version of Dexter. At least with an e-reader I can purchase an ebook from the states and download it for much less than I can buy it at the only bookstore within 1500 km or worse at an international airport newsstand.
Also the other books I read are quite thick and I've been saving money and weight by purchasing the ebook version from people like "Pragmatic Programmers".
You have to excuse him. He wanted a replacement for Microsoft's Tablet PC at a much lower price, and you wanted a dedicated media consumer appliance that works out of the box the way you like it.
I don't know why the two camps can't get along on Slashdot, but here we are.
Wow you are so hard up against Apple that you had to rush out and spew nonsense without even understanding what I was talking about? No wonder you posted as an AC.
Go read the multitude of reviews about the Viewsonic gTablet 10.1, almost all of them talk about how poorly the tablet runs with its stock ROM and suggest that it is better with an alternative ROM from xda and others.
Here you come and offer a Galaxy S for comparison, too bad it costs more than the wifi only iPad while only offering only a few features that I'm interested in. Not to mention a shorter battery life.
Unlike Sonny Yatsen who understood what I was talking about and suggested that I look at the Nook Color for $250 since I would be rooting anyway.
By the way, I feel sorry for the folks that place a high value on widgets versus other features of the device. It means that they are more interested in the shiny interface than the people that they ridicule.
I have widgets on my Android phone that I don't really use, and I can do heavy work with my eeePC running Ubuntu. I just wanted something to read books and play games that don't come stock on a e-book reader using a form factor that was bigger than my phone yet didn't require the tray table taking up the valuable space in coach.
My daughter has one that she uses for reading, and she is happy with its response.
I heard there was a way of booting an alternate firmware version from the MicroSD without messing with the original stock nook ROM. If this proves to be true, than I might consider running out and spending $250 on something that may not get used much. Then again, I could just use the stock ROM and read a book during the flight.
Yea I know. I noticed this behavior when the Droid was coming out. Evidently the only way Google is able to get hardware vendors on board is to offer some exclusivity to them prior to release. I always wondered how HTC felt being "shafted" by the exclusive deal with Motorola after they were the ones that put Android phones in the hands of the consumer.
It's as if Google is using "open source development" as a facade to sell Android to us geeks. It's not really fully open sourced if we are only allowed to fix bugs or add features after the initial version release. Then again we are only fixing bugs and adding features to OUR phones, since the average non-rooting consumer will most likely be stuck with the initial version of the OS that came with their phone for the life of the contract.
Still it is the more open than iOS, but less open than Meego.
Here's my delima which probably mirror others. I'd like to have a tablet PC to take with me on a very long (more than 24 hours from the first plane to the last plane) flight itinerary. I can get a Viewsonic gTablet 10.1 for $350, spend an afternoon installing one of the xda custom ROMs and get a crippled experience in exchange for getting a 2.2 version of Android working on an otherwise fine piece of hardware (WTF Viewsonic?). Or I can spend a $100 more and get an iPad (that may soon be replaced with iPad2) but works out of the box with all the apps that would keep me entertained and somewhat productive until I land and able to use my laptop.
I'd like to play with an Android tablet, since I have an Android phone *but* my time is worth more than the $100 I'd save. So I wait...
Considering that people consider Android to be an open source project, I'm surprised to not see others with a pre-release version of Honeycomb too.
In other words: They are able to do their jobs now with what they have and you want to "help" them continue doing their jobs by making them learn something new.
I made money modernizing offices, and the attitude you have shown is counter-productive.
The number one error that office managers seem to make is buying a PC with a word processor and a spreadsheet program and installing it on each employee's desk. After which they instruct the employee to learn how to use it, and quickly go to their superior and brag about how they modernized the office. The mistake being that no effort was made to understand why the employee was so productive, and giving the employee a general purpose tool to replace what they were accustomed to using. This results in the employee having to learn something new "to make someone else's job easier" and the employee "knowing" that the office manager is trying to make himself indispensable by introducing something into the workplace that only he understands.
In one of the offices that I "modernized" there was an employee that used a typewriter to keep up with the inventory. It worked flawless for him, and since the trucks arrived very early in the morning, he had all workday to do the tallies. He would white out the totals and add new truckloads to the bottom of the list, cross out the truckloads that were no longer at the warehouse, add up all the numbers, and put a new total at the bottom of the list. He would then make photocopies of his "master list" and send them to the other office workers. He did this every day for the past 15 years, and he was able to do all this quickly (much faster than I thought possible). I was able to "win him over" by creating a specialized spreadsheet application that allowed him to continue to work the way he was accustomed to, and he saw that the instantaneous totals made his job easier. The key was to make the software conform to the worker.
Today I see the reverse being done. Terminals that had forms that the data entry clerk could quickly fill in are being replaced with window machines running software that don't even come close to being the same thing. Worse I've seen terminals being replaced by windows machines running terminal emulators. This shows a lack of thought by IT. No wonder employees despise them. Of course IT people are accustomed to windows, so they don't see why the employees are so problematic...
I did this all in the 80's when personal computers in the office were new. I'd thought people would have it easier today.
Unless something changes, you'll give up your Netflix streaming when you trade your iPad for a Android tablet. I'm hoping that Netflix will make a honeycomb version of their player.
Yea I saw that. May look at the Colby since it is so much cheaper. Not in a hurry, but would like something to tinker with while I'm away.
Well I've been looking at the 10.1" Viewsonic gTablet. I could root it and put a stock Android ROM on it and only spend $350.
That seems unconstitutional. It seeks to strip the 2014 (and beyond) house of representatives of an ability that is specifically mentioned in Section 8 and clause 1 of the constitution which states "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States" not to mention clause 3 which states To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;"
What I'm trying to say is how can the current house of representatives take away a future's house of representatives ability to fund anything (which in this case being the Corporation for Public Broadcasting) which is described as one of the functions of that body by the constitution without a constitutional amendment?
I suspect they can't.
It's well within their power to allocate the government's money during this session, but trying to dictate what a future congress can do seems like a stretch.
Funny how the party that sells themselves as adhering to the constitution always seems to be the ones that do everything possible outside the bounds of the constitution...
The electroworld site seems iffy, mainly because 3 of their offerings appear to be counterfeit iPads running Android.
No offense intended, but this is why I take the sub $200 tablet examples with a huge grain of salt. It just has the feel of "you can buy a similar watch much cheaper if you go to the stranger selling them on the sidewalk." What could possibly go wrong?
You assume that she was blinded by the sun during her entire drive. It is entirely possible that the sun didn't play a role until she reached the part of the street (due to a curb or incline) that the accident took place. Coincidently another accident took place for the exact same reason moments earlier.
It could be a function of reaction time (The timespan separating the sun blinding light affecting the driver and the driver slowing the car). Beas would have been at a disadvantage since she would have a shorter timespan to react than the drivers involved in the previous accident since their cars are still there.
It could very well be the case of people in an accident keeping their cars in harms way after an accident, instead of moving their cars somewhere safe. I know I get irritated when minor fender benders cause traffic congestions because they act like CSI will come and inspect the scene of the accident.