unless you have suffered a brain injury where you cant remember things for more than a few minutes, you know that businesses a suing the hell out of anyone that threatens them or just wants a piece of the pie. if it disrupts anyone in business or is too successful, it's going to be swamped by legal trouble. got a great idea? "NO YOU DONT, I PATENTED IT, YOU THIEF!"
so my prediction is that the 1% will continue to war on the 99% and congressmen will continue their war on liberties. if we are lucky, our oppression will come with smaller tech that sucks less power.
even the article title says they will be really cheap, so the idea that you will need to swap it for every device is just stupid because if you can buy them for $20, why wouldnt you just buy one for each device? in the event that newer ones are expensive and you have to put a cover over it to make it hard to remove, what's the point of having it be PCMCIA? it's either cheap and you have multiple ones or expensive and hard to swap out. either way, you wont be removing it often.
i've seen this idea for a modular computer before and the choice of using PCMCIA dumb. 1) There isnt an explanation for why they choose PCMCIA so it's quite arbitrary. 2) They talk about ejector assemblies for the cards as if you would be popping out the card on a regular basis which would be foolish. For one, i dont want some jackass popping out the core of my laptop and running off with it to sell on eBay. 3) Like someone said before, making PCMCIA cards is difficult because of the connector. Why not just use an edge connector that will reduce manufacturing faults? 4) It's not even a standard PCMCIA connector, it has "Deliberate Mechanical Non-interoperability" so that you cant put in other PCMCIA cards by accident.
A simple X pin edge connector (like what RAM uses) would simplify manufacturing and not require custom connection parts. Just opening a small panel with a couple screwed under your laptop and stick in the new edge connector based module would solve all these issues.
why didnt this drone keep track of where it was visually or use it's sophisticated instruments to keep a running record of where it really was? this thing cost zillions to develop and what do we get? total hacks writing the software and crap for QA.
the drone in iran was a dumb idea to begin with but now it's just a big demonstration of incompetence.
there are a bunch of tablets at DealExtreme.com, naturally they all run Android so you can load up whatever. It's important to read the reviews so you can find a decent one and not a junker.
'The idea is to be very low cost, very safe and generate very little waste'
the Chinese have a habit of cutting corners, lots of them. will it really be safe? also, their track record of proper waste disposal is poor. it's a good idea as long as there arent any people involved.
after a forced/inadvertent migration that i couldnt undo to gnome 3 (thanks debian. -_-), i bailed. i tried to use the new UI, i really did but it was horrid. i couldnt get anything done and kde was just as bad. i'm still working on finding/writing programs to make a good desktop environment but i refuse to be a victim of Gnome developer stupidity again.
unlike the former games they have been playing where they take down services which take potential money, they are taking real quantifiable money. when you take real money and assets are lost, law enforcement gets very serious. this is going to be a zillion counts of credit card fraud and damn some people are getting a shitton of years in jail.
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Mr Ive was "hurt" by Mr Jobs taking credit for innovations that came from the design team.
wait, you mean Jobs isnt the angelic being everyone has made him out to be?
Something uneventful happened! What a great /. story.
Occupy Farmville
One of these is not like the other.
PATENTS.
unless you have suffered a brain injury where you cant remember things for more than a few minutes, you know that businesses a suing the hell out of anyone that threatens them or just wants a piece of the pie. if it disrupts anyone in business or is too successful, it's going to be swamped by legal trouble. got a great idea? "NO YOU DONT, I PATENTED IT, YOU THIEF!"
so my prediction is that the 1% will continue to war on the 99% and congressmen will continue their war on liberties. if we are lucky, our oppression will come with smaller tech that sucks less power.
A: Cease and Desist letter.
even the article title says they will be really cheap, so the idea that you will need to swap it for every device is just stupid because if you can buy them for $20, why wouldnt you just buy one for each device? in the event that newer ones are expensive and you have to put a cover over it to make it hard to remove, what's the point of having it be PCMCIA? it's either cheap and you have multiple ones or expensive and hard to swap out. either way, you wont be removing it often.
it's good in theory but just not practical.
i've seen this idea for a modular computer before and the choice of using PCMCIA dumb.
1) There isnt an explanation for why they choose PCMCIA so it's quite arbitrary.
2) They talk about ejector assemblies for the cards as if you would be popping out the card on a regular basis which would be foolish. For one, i dont want some jackass popping out the core of my laptop and running off with it to sell on eBay.
3) Like someone said before, making PCMCIA cards is difficult because of the connector. Why not just use an edge connector that will reduce manufacturing faults?
4) It's not even a standard PCMCIA connector, it has "Deliberate Mechanical Non-interoperability" so that you cant put in other PCMCIA cards by accident.
A simple X pin edge connector (like what RAM uses) would simplify manufacturing and not require custom connection parts. Just opening a small panel with a couple screwed under your laptop and stick in the new edge connector based module would solve all these issues.
This idea for a easily popped out card is STUPID.
why didnt this drone keep track of where it was visually or use it's sophisticated instruments to keep a running record of where it really was? this thing cost zillions to develop and what do we get? total hacks writing the software and crap for QA.
the drone in iran was a dumb idea to begin with but now it's just a big demonstration of incompetence.
troll? maybe. deserved? absolutely.
there are a bunch of tablets at DealExtreme.com, naturally they all run Android so you can load up whatever. It's important to read the reviews so you can find a decent one and not a junker.
he sounds like the perfect bank executive.
it's too big to fail.
Linux Journal bribed by Gnome 3 developers. ;)
how is making restrictions keeping the web open?
does it run Linux?
'The idea is to be very low cost, very safe and generate very little waste'
the Chinese have a habit of cutting corners, lots of them. will it really be safe? also, their track record of proper waste disposal is poor. it's a good idea as long as there arent any people involved.
is Iran trying to get a /kickban?
irc.internets.earth is such a troubled place.
hire intelligent people instead of just the usual cronies.
it's time for the Pony Express to come back!
we know that the EU is giving facebook flack for their privacy issues, so what do you think they are going to do to Carrier IQ?
i get the feeling that in a couple months we will see the a headline about Carrier IQ going under.
after a forced/inadvertent migration that i couldnt undo to gnome 3 (thanks debian. -_-), i bailed. i tried to use the new UI, i really did but it was horrid. i couldnt get anything done and kde was just as bad. i'm still working on finding/writing programs to make a good desktop environment but i refuse to be a victim of Gnome developer stupidity again.
i've left you Gnome and i'm not coming back.
this does nothing for the interests of the people, this is corporate pandering, nothing more.
corporations != people
unlike the former games they have been playing where they take down services which take potential money, they are taking real quantifiable money. when you take real money and assets are lost, law enforcement gets very serious. this is going to be a zillion counts of credit card fraud and damn some people are getting a shitton of years in jail.
Chuck Norris protects the internet. :)
promising to turn the modern high-rise, quite literally, on its head
literally? really, literally? -_-