Imagine if they start charging, say, 0.01 cent per packet. Internet radio would be a waste of money. We'd have to tweak our browsers to do maximum caching, and avoid unnecessary website visits, emails, or IMs. Web surfing would become costly, and VoIP or IPTV would be all but impractical. I have to hope that somehow, market forces would prevent that from making sense for the Verizons and Qwests to do.
Remember Simon? Just take out the yellow key, and map it onto the three keys of this thing, and you have a little game. On the full keyboard, you could orient the keyboard so there's a person at each side, and map backtick/left shift and backspace/right shift to paddle controls, and have a game of pong between the two sides. Or you could have a whack-a-mole-like game, where keys light up and you have to hit them as quickly as possible.
Does anyone else see the great potential here for game developers? I can even imagine games being integrated across the main monitor and the Optimus, sort of like the DS. The only hindrance for these ideas is that the Optimus' keys aren't arranged in a grid, but that can be worked around. This would be a non-issue for, say, Hearn sliding-coin puzzles, which are arranged in arbitrary graph configurations.
I would gladly pay $200 for a keyboard with this layout, and all the other features of the touchstream combined justify its $339 price-tag. Unfortunately, it's not available anymore, not even on ebay. Oh well.
Call me on this, but I think it's illegal to abuse a network like this. Patenting something does not make it legal. These applications had better not be accepted.
Besides that whole issue, is a patent even appropriate here? It is not being sold to other entities; patents are designed to keep products from being copied by others. I should think Macrovision would hardly mind if other companies copy them and start similarly interdicting P2P users.
One nice thing about Linux is distros. Gentoo and Debian, for example, are particularly geek-oriented, while Redhat is a (perhaps small) step in the Microsoft direction. It has a pretty installer wizard and you really don't need to know the first thing about shell scripts, makefiles, or even that such things exist to use it.
I think a good project for an enterprising developer with a lot of free time is to make a "Brushed Metal" distro which, like brushed metal, is pretty, shiny, doesn't have little parts that poke you, is very easy to use, is mass-produced, and is really cool (in the sense that trendy clothes are cool).
Meanwhile, the geeks among us can use our current distros without interruption.
When you combine shorted out batteries with a plastic case, you get some weird chemicals. And that case is tight enough that the pressure of those fumes would get pretty high.
If you just have a shorted out or corroded battery, you probably don't want to touch it, but if you do, it is not particularly dangerous; you might get a slight burn or a small shock. But electrolyzing plastic...that could be serious.
Well, if you're going to make healthy people better than they are, it is only fair to use this technology to help the disabled people first. If a bunch of people are stranded on an island, but a few of them are not only stuck on the island but have been kidnapped by natives and are being tortured, it's natural to rescue them before even thinking about getting everyone back to civilization.
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Imagine if they start charging, say, 0.01 cent per packet. Internet radio would be a waste of money. We'd have to tweak our browsers to do maximum caching, and avoid unnecessary website visits, emails, or IMs. Web surfing would become costly, and VoIP or IPTV would be all but impractical. I have to hope that somehow, market forces would prevent that from making sense for the Verizons and Qwests to do.
Remember Simon? Just take out the yellow key, and map it onto the three keys of this thing, and you have a little game. On the full keyboard, you could orient the keyboard so there's a person at each side, and map backtick/left shift and backspace/right shift to paddle controls, and have a game of pong between the two sides. Or you could have a whack-a-mole-like game, where keys light up and you have to hit them as quickly as possible. Does anyone else see the great potential here for game developers? I can even imagine games being integrated across the main monitor and the Optimus, sort of like the DS. The only hindrance for these ideas is that the Optimus' keys aren't arranged in a grid, but that can be worked around. This would be a non-issue for, say, Hearn sliding-coin puzzles, which are arranged in arbitrary graph configurations.
I would gladly pay $200 for a keyboard with this layout, and all the other features of the touchstream combined justify its $339 price-tag. Unfortunately, it's not available anymore, not even on ebay. Oh well.
I see. Then it is a product, I suppose, being sold to the media industry. I didn't know the media industry was paying them for this stuff.
Call me on this, but I think it's illegal to abuse a network like this. Patenting something does not make it legal. These applications had better not be accepted.
Besides that whole issue, is a patent even appropriate here? It is not being sold to other entities; patents are designed to keep products from being copied by others. I should think Macrovision would hardly mind if other companies copy them and start similarly interdicting P2P users.
One nice thing about Linux is distros. Gentoo and Debian, for example, are particularly geek-oriented, while Redhat is a (perhaps small) step in the Microsoft direction. It has a pretty installer wizard and you really don't need to know the first thing about shell scripts, makefiles, or even that such things exist to use it. I think a good project for an enterprising developer with a lot of free time is to make a "Brushed Metal" distro which, like brushed metal, is pretty, shiny, doesn't have little parts that poke you, is very easy to use, is mass-produced, and is really cool (in the sense that trendy clothes are cool). Meanwhile, the geeks among us can use our current distros without interruption.
When you combine shorted out batteries with a plastic case, you get some weird chemicals. And that case is tight enough that the pressure of those fumes would get pretty high. If you just have a shorted out or corroded battery, you probably don't want to touch it, but if you do, it is not particularly dangerous; you might get a slight burn or a small shock. But electrolyzing plastic...that could be serious.
We have far too many as it is. Why would India need its own? Are no existing ones good enough?
Well, if you're going to make healthy people better than they are, it is only fair to use this technology to help the disabled people first. If a bunch of people are stranded on an island, but a few of them are not only stuck on the island but have been kidnapped by natives and are being tortured, it's natural to rescue them before even thinking about getting everyone back to civilization.