Google holds a patent to use a __________ branded mobile phone to squash jukebox songs. Last I knew, Google is well known for a certain mobile phone OS.
But no, the title went for "iPhone".
So who paid for that headline?
Folks, THAT is the new business model - "pay for custom slanted news!"
Dunno if it's just me, but there feels like a massive shift in computing coming through soon. It's this weird Tech version of the Mayan doomsday where everybody is going all "OMG Mobile!"
So desktop users will be sorta pushed to the sidelines, and then we're all supposed to live on our phones or something.
But once those UI switches are made,... then what? It's creating a kind of "block in the prophetic visions of the future", so everyone scrambles for two years because Mobile Is Da Hotness,... then what?
Are we just going to stare at each other in a kind of giant fishbowl meta-boredom having reached a point where there "isn't any innovation left"? Oh, they'll do small things, like add ons, and maybe "smart clothing" with GPS enhancements, etc etc, but after everyone finishes this big "Mobile or Die" push, it feels like it will be almost a letdown of "what do we do with ourselves now?"
Good, someone else noticed this, and I believe it cannot be an accident. I cannot quite tell if the Euro judges accelerated a timeline to get their ruling in first, but the 21st century is quickly becoming the "IP battleground" and this looks like almost an Amicus Curiae from "another jurisdiction".
(Bitter) Of course they can. You seem to think the Constitution means something. However Corporations now have Sudo powers over the Constitution. (/Bitter)
Wow, I'm almost as shocked that you have to ask if it's wrong! : (
Let's sing a song together.
"Old USA Had some towns. EIEIO. And in those towns were some terrorists. EIEIO! Here's a terrorist, there's a terrorist, everywhere there's a terrorist, terrorist. Won't somebody think of the kids? EIEIO!
Let's pass new laws like Cyber CISPA. EIEIO. And with those laws we can arrest you if you "look like a threat". EIEIO."
Oops - we made up the threats. Isn't that the entire concept of False Flags?
I got slammed with this today at work. I finally got my nice experimental Linux box going this weekend after procrastinating for a year, and when I mentioned to one of my snarky younger colleagues "It's a free operating system", he said, complete with grammar as is, "So it's like a Microsoft (sic) but a lot worse?"
But get this - I see all news these days through the eyes of a former Magic the Gathering player perspective - no one story means anything. Combos of stories - NOW we're cooking! It's like they deliberately release separate components of a dangerous combo separately to soothe the masses from staging revolts.
Media: Songs/Movies/maybe Books: "I don't want to pay a red cent! Gimme free even if I technically break the law!" Operating Systems: "Free, at the cost of doing a little work? Eew! Please make me pay $500!"
That just reeks/screams Combo. "1000 songs and 100 movies free if you use the free Operating system Linux!"
Right, they started taking down shows, that's a sure sign that someone was messing with the service.
But I didn't see this move coming - the whole point of Hulu was that it as "Time shifted TV on the net" - sure we'll play the usual ads vs viewer games, just like good ol basic TV. But now requiring "proof you spent money to be able to watch TV?!" Nope.
Plus a lot of good shows are winding down anyway and I don't see as many replacements. Lie to me left the air last year. Chuck just finished its wrap up. Bones probably only has a season or two left. Venerable ol' Simpsons might actually be leaving the air in a year-ish. I think the British show Misfits only has a year or two left of short seasons. Anime Tiger & Bunny only went on for a year, now they're moving toward a movie. House is ending soon.
I'm a brand new Linux user, and after some finessing via a Sub-Sub-distro, I landed on Lubuntu. However I'm sad to report that Ubuntu packages are not stable at all, and I've been burned by bugs bad a few times especially in the driver dept.
However I like LXDE, and if I have time some day I might look at XFCE too. But I agree priority one was to get off Unity.
We had a chance to get Linux On the Desktop in 2006 with Vista "that looked like Windows 7 (to come later) but crashed like Windows 95". So X% of users suffered, y% stayed on XP, Z% went to Mac. Let's just say "no one" (for LARGE values of "no one" in quotes) went to Linux.
But maybe we're on the edge of an even better chance. We're all being shoved off of XP soon, headlong into Windows 8 Metro. Metro will NOT look anything like Windows. It might not even run a lot of apps so the compatibility advantage weakens.
So just maybe, if we can get a couple of overall policy direction leaders that the techies really trust, (with no single one in charge for fairness?) then maybe someone who likes Disruptive business can tap a silent investor with a BIG pocket to churn 30,000 developer-hours to cleaning up the inter-operability problems in Linux. (Maybe some cross-distro middleware?)
"New user account, lengthy reply posted with the same timestamp as the story, marketingish language, ugh. Yup -- same shill, new account. "
Ya know, it might not be the *same* shill, maybe just another drone from the same hive.
What gets me about at least this post (I haven't checked the others) is the *really bad grammar* - someone is definitely getting paid, but how much? It's gotta be someone outsourced, you can't be telling me the grammar is that bad on purpose.
Maybe a couple signature developers were paid that amount, but there's no way every single Atari game dev was paid that much.
Changing platforms, there was plenty of Bargain Basement Dev going on there too. I particularly remember Keypunch Software as being laughably ludicrous, they'd use Ascii art to represent characters in games, and I sat there thinking "this can't have taken 2 guys more than 3 months to make." That would make the production cost like $50,000.
I think the only game that blew my socks off vs the hardware was Bob Keenan's Rags to Riches. A bunch were midline. Keypunch games were what I played when I paid $9 and it felt like it, like the Rocky Horror of gaming.
Don't forget the lightning production schedule, that needs to churn out 5(?) episodes a week. Urban legend has it that they get at most two takes on something, and in some long forgotten show some character said "As I look into your thighs... I mean your eyes..." and they didn't have time to fix it.
For every digital work, if you send a copy to a Troop, with the postal receipt to prove it, what happens? Does he only escape because of some combination of being A, a Vet, B, 92, or C, having spent so much?
Suppose it's like a buck to mail a DVD in a compact mailer - is that a new copyright loophole? Or without those statuses above do you get crushed in flames?
It already is! Once again the Net sneaks up on our old school habits! "(Blah blah blah copyright runs out in 2015 blah blah blah)". Remember that thing called countries, and how they have different laws? (Up until the US "fixes" that anyway!) Well, for now Australia's copyright laws are a lot shorter than the US, so Gutenberg Australia has some editions of texts that are still locked in copyright elsewhere. Here is Gutenberg Australia's copy of Mein Kampf, so have at it!
"Of course, works may remain copyrighted in other countries. One cannot legally download or read books posted at Project Gutenbrg of Australia if one is in a country where copyright protections extend more than 50 years past an author's death. The author's estate and publishers still retain their legal and moral rights to oversee the work in those countries."
So, I guess you'd better not follow that link. Isn't copyright wonderful.
We need some kind of Tracking-Data-Armageddon security breach to make the common citizens wake up and realize that we're all just going to stare at each other in a dystopian fishbowl forever while everything just becomes more unfair.
(Satire) That's all I can type now because I used up my monthly ascii character quota on two tweets of data for $99.95. (/Satire)
Slashdot Mirror
The First Post is a metaphor for testing the beginnings of censorship.
Sigh, another page hit title.
Google holds a patent to use a __________ branded mobile phone to squash jukebox songs. Last I knew, Google is well known for a certain mobile phone OS.
But no, the title went for "iPhone".
So who paid for that headline?
Folks, THAT is the new business model - "pay for custom slanted news!"
Yes, because we can debug syntax errors in any language that computers speak and none of the ones people speak.
Slashdot totally needs a new mod "Other: Fill in _____"
This is +1 Buddhist!
The new rebrand is "Security Researcher". I haven't seen that get culture-broken yet.
Dunno if it's just me, but there feels like a massive shift in computing coming through soon. It's this weird Tech version of the Mayan doomsday where everybody is going all "OMG Mobile!"
So desktop users will be sorta pushed to the sidelines, and then we're all supposed to live on our phones or something.
But once those UI switches are made, ... then what? It's creating a kind of "block in the prophetic visions of the future", so everyone scrambles for two years because Mobile Is Da Hotness, ... then what?
Are we just going to stare at each other in a kind of giant fishbowl meta-boredom having reached a point where there "isn't any innovation left"? Oh, they'll do small things, like add ons, and maybe "smart clothing" with GPS enhancements, etc etc, but after everyone finishes this big "Mobile or Die" push, it feels like it will be almost a letdown of "what do we do with ourselves now?"
Somebody over there is feeling desperate to "Metro-ize" Firefox. Or something.
Why can't there just be an interface for a 24" Desktop and a second for a Tablet? Is it suddenly that hard to maintain "two products"?
Or maybe even if not fully open source, at least forks.
Cometbird. PaleMoon. Your choice of others. Someone's going to keep the classic UI.
Good, someone else noticed this, and I believe it cannot be an accident. I cannot quite tell if the Euro judges accelerated a timeline to get their ruling in first, but the 21st century is quickly becoming the "IP battleground" and this looks like almost an Amicus Curiae from "another jurisdiction".
Oh! Oh! I know this one!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbvTvExxrvY&feature=related
(Bitter)
Of course they can.
You seem to think the Constitution means something.
However Corporations now have Sudo powers over the Constitution.
(/Bitter)
Simple version.
Read news in Combos. Any one IP-related story is bad enough, but take them in doubles or triples and ghastly things are emerging.
Wow, I'm almost as shocked that you have to ask if it's wrong! : (
Let's sing a song together.
"Old USA Had some towns. EIEIO. And in those towns were some terrorists. EIEIO! Here's a terrorist, there's a terrorist, everywhere there's a terrorist, terrorist. Won't somebody think of the kids? EIEIO!
Let's pass new laws like Cyber CISPA. EIEIO. And with those laws we can arrest you if you "look like a threat". EIEIO."
Oops - we made up the threats. Isn't that the entire concept of False Flags?
I got slammed with this today at work. I finally got my nice experimental Linux box going this weekend after procrastinating for a year, and when I mentioned to one of my snarky younger colleagues "It's a free operating system", he said, complete with grammar as is, "So it's like a Microsoft (sic) but a lot worse?"
But get this - I see all news these days through the eyes of a former Magic the Gathering player perspective - no one story means anything. Combos of stories - NOW we're cooking! It's like they deliberately release separate components of a dangerous combo separately to soothe the masses from staging revolts.
Media: Songs/Movies/maybe Books: "I don't want to pay a red cent! Gimme free even if I technically break the law!"
Operating Systems: "Free, at the cost of doing a little work? Eew! Please make me pay $500!"
That just reeks/screams Combo. "1000 songs and 100 movies free if you use the free Operating system Linux!"
Right, they started taking down shows, that's a sure sign that someone was messing with the service.
But I didn't see this move coming - the whole point of Hulu was that it as "Time shifted TV on the net" - sure we'll play the usual ads vs viewer games, just like good ol basic TV. But now requiring "proof you spent money to be able to watch TV?!" Nope.
Plus a lot of good shows are winding down anyway and I don't see as many replacements. Lie to me left the air last year. Chuck just finished its wrap up. Bones probably only has a season or two left. Venerable ol' Simpsons might actually be leaving the air in a year-ish. I think the British show Misfits only has a year or two left of short seasons. Anime Tiger & Bunny only went on for a year, now they're moving toward a movie. House is ending soon.
I'm a brand new Linux user, and after some finessing via a Sub-Sub-distro, I landed on Lubuntu. However I'm sad to report that Ubuntu packages are not stable at all, and I've been burned by bugs bad a few times especially in the driver dept.
However I like LXDE, and if I have time some day I might look at XFCE too. But I agree priority one was to get off Unity.
We had a chance to get Linux On the Desktop in 2006 with Vista "that looked like Windows 7 (to come later) but crashed like Windows 95". So X% of users suffered, y% stayed on XP, Z% went to Mac. Let's just say "no one" (for LARGE values of "no one" in quotes) went to Linux.
But maybe we're on the edge of an even better chance. We're all being shoved off of XP soon, headlong into Windows 8 Metro. Metro will NOT look anything like Windows. It might not even run a lot of apps so the compatibility advantage weakens.
So just maybe, if we can get a couple of overall policy direction leaders that the techies really trust, (with no single one in charge for fairness?) then maybe someone who likes Disruptive business can tap a silent investor with a BIG pocket to churn 30,000 developer-hours to cleaning up the inter-operability problems in Linux. (Maybe some cross-distro middleware?)
"New user account, lengthy reply posted with the same timestamp as the story, marketingish language, ugh. Yup -- same shill, new account. "
Ya know, it might not be the *same* shill, maybe just another drone from the same hive.
What gets me about at least this post (I haven't checked the others) is the *really bad grammar* - someone is definitely getting paid, but how much? It's gotta be someone outsourced, you can't be telling me the grammar is that bad on purpose.
Dammit I missed a noun, read my second paragraph talking about Commodore 64.
Maybe a couple signature developers were paid that amount, but there's no way every single Atari game dev was paid that much.
Changing platforms, there was plenty of Bargain Basement Dev going on there too. I particularly remember Keypunch Software as being laughably ludicrous, they'd use Ascii art to represent characters in games, and I sat there thinking "this can't have taken 2 guys more than 3 months to make." That would make the production cost like $50,000.
I think the only game that blew my socks off vs the hardware was Bob Keenan's Rags to Riches. A bunch were midline. Keypunch games were what I played when I paid $9 and it felt like it, like the Rocky Horror of gaming.
Don't forget the lightning production schedule, that needs to churn out 5(?) episodes a week. Urban legend has it that they get at most two takes on something, and in some long forgotten show some character said "As I look into your thighs... I mean your eyes..." and they didn't have time to fix it.
So - ACTUALLY do it for the troops!
For every digital work, if you send a copy to a Troop, with the postal receipt to prove it, what happens? Does he only escape because of some combination of being A, a Vet, B, 92, or C, having spent so much?
Suppose it's like a buck to mail a DVD in a compact mailer - is that a new copyright loophole? Or without those statuses above do you get crushed in flames?
"Ssh! You're supposed to shut up and Believe in the Study!"
It already is! Once again the Net sneaks up on our old school habits! "(Blah blah blah copyright runs out in 2015 blah blah blah)". Remember that thing called countries, and how they have different laws? (Up until the US "fixes" that anyway!) Well, for now Australia's copyright laws are a lot shorter than the US, so Gutenberg Australia has some editions of texts that are still locked in copyright elsewhere. Here is Gutenberg Australia's copy of Mein Kampf, so have at it!
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200601.txt
Oh wait, there is this eerie clause:
http://gutenberg.net.au/submissions.html
"Of course, works may remain copyrighted in other countries. One cannot legally download or read books posted at Project Gutenbrg of Australia if one is in a country where copyright protections extend more than 50 years past an author's death. The author's estate and publishers still retain their legal and moral rights to oversee the work in those countries."
So, I guess you'd better not follow that link. Isn't copyright wonderful.
The pace is accelerating.
We need some kind of Tracking-Data-Armageddon security breach to make the common citizens wake up and realize that we're all just going to stare at each other in a dystopian fishbowl forever while everything just becomes more unfair.
(Satire)
That's all I can type now because I used up my monthly ascii character quota on two tweets of data for $99.95.
(/Satire)