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Authored by: SilverWave on Tuesday, October 30 2012 @ 02:42 PM EDT |
Google announces Nexus 10 tablet with iPad-beating
specs --- RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Tuesday, October 30 2012 @ 02:54 PM EDT |
Hopefully she will be back to near normal ops soon.
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Authored by: albert on Tuesday, October 30 2012 @ 03:46 PM EDT |
[video]
[young people in a lovely walled garden, playing with the
products]
[jingle]
♪ ♪ ♪ ♪
♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪
♪
'Does everything a phone can do, and it's a tablet, too!'©
[video Ballmer]
"It floats like a boat and flies like a plane",
says Steve Ballmer. "We got the idea from Tim Cook.", says Ballmer. "It took a
lot of work, but we did it!"
The Pivot™ closes the chain of
Microsoft Paradise™, an ecosystem that gives to user a total Microsoft
Experience™.
Steve says: "Buying a Pivot™ at a Microsoft Store™ lets you into
our world, where you get to use the Microsoft Cloud™, Microsoft Movies™ and
Microsoft Music™, Microsoft Bing™, and Microsoft Apps™". "And there's more in
the pipeline!", says Steve.
[jingle]
♪ ♪ ♪
♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪
♪ ♪
'Be part of our world. The world of the future...'©
[female voice]
Microsoft™!
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Authored by: SilverWave on Tuesday, October 30 2012 @ 04:18 PM EDT |
Google’s Nexus 4, 7, 10 strategy: Openness at all costs
By Ryan Whitwam --- RMS: The 4 Freedoms
0 run the program for any purpose
1 study the source code and change it
2 make copies and distribute them
3 publish modified versions
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 30 2012 @ 04:34 PM EDT |
Earlier this year, OLPC workers dropped off closed boxes containing the tablets,
taped shut, with no instruction. “I thought the kids would play with the boxes.
Within four minutes, one kid not only opened the box, found the on-off switch …
powered it up. Within five days, they were using 47 apps per child, per day.
Within two weeks, they were singing ABC songs in the village, and within five
months, they had hacked Android,” Negroponte said. “Some idiot in our
organization or in the Media Lab had disabled the camera, and they figured out
the camera, and had hacked Android.”
http://mashable.com/2012/10/29/tablets-ethiopian-children/[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 30 2012 @ 06:23 PM EDT |
In an interview after his talk, Negroponte [Nicholas Negroponte,
OLPC’s founder] said that while the early results are promising, reaching
conclusions about whether children could learn to read this way would require
more time. “If it gets funded, it would need to continue for another a year and
a half to two years to come to a conclusion that the scientific community would
accept,” Negroponte said. “We’d have to start with a new village and make a
clean start.”
The idea of dropping off tablets outside of the context of
schools is a new paradigm for OLPC. Through the late 2000s, the company was
focused on delivering a custom miniaturized and ruggedized laptop, the XO, of
which about 3 million have been distributed to kids in 40 countries. Deployments
went to schools including ones in Peru.
Giving computers directly to poor kids without any
instruction is even more ambitious than OLPC’s earlier pushes. “What can we do
for these 100 million kids around the world who don’t go to school?” McNierney
[Ed McNierney, OLPC’s chief technology officer] said. “Can we give them tool to
read and learn—without having to provide schools and teachers and textbooks and
all that?”
David
Talbot, Mashable / MIT Technology Review[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: yorkshireman on Tuesday, October 30 2012 @ 07:26 PM EDT |
Nokia claims it
'resurrected' the Windows Phone
I
wonder if Nokia shareholders knew that was where their
money was
going? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 30 2012 @ 08:04 PM EDT |
Philips LED lightbulbs iPhone only for
now
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, October 30 2012 @ 09:17 PM EDT |
It is often said that television changed the nature of the news by requiring all
stories to fit into a ten second soundbite in order to get coverage. I feel like
the advent of touchscreen smartphones on the internet in large numbers is
starting to impose a similar change on the internet - dumbing it down -
shrinking it - forcing everything to fit on a tiny touch screen.
I've been recently finding Google News increasingly frustrating to use on my
desktop and I've just realised that this is why. The main page by default now
shows only one story on each topic. If there is a topic I am interested in I
want to browse multiple sources. This used to be easy - now it is less so. You
now have to drill down through the inaptly named "realtime coverage"
link and go a couple of layers deep to get at other stories covering the same
topic. The format is all one column now. There is a lot less news on the screen
at one time and you have to scroll and click incessantly to get at more. I can
see all this makes sense on a small screen tablet or smartphone. But I've got a
desktop with multiple large screens. It is starting to frustrate me. It feels
like being forced to look at the world through a cardboard tube.
Please Google and others who have redesigned everything to be smartphone
friendly. Could we have desktop editions for people still using large screens
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Authored by: N_au on Tuesday, October 30 2012 @ 11:07 PM EDT |
See the previous story is still narrow and hard to read. Has anyone looked at
the table as that is the width the whole thing ends up? I know it doesn't affect
all themes, but I have mine set up with a different colour when I am logged in
so it reminds when I am not.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 31 2012 @ 01:27 AM EDT |
We have known for years that browsewraps are
unenforceable (see
some of the cases discussed here) and
judges clearly dislike unilateral
amendment clauses (see,
e.g., the uncited Ninth Circuit's Douglas ruling from
2007
and the cited 2009 ruling in the Blockbuster/Facebook Beacon
case).
Still, the ruling leaves Zappos in a bad position. Its
contract is
legally irrelevant, meaning that all of the risk
management provisions in its
contract are ineffective--its
disclaimer of warranties, its waiver of
consequential
damages, its reduced statute of limitations, its clause
restricting class actions in arbitration...all of these are
gone, leaving
Zappos governed by the default legal rules,
which aren't nearly as favorable to
it. Losing its contract
provisions meant Zappos is legally naked.
Avoiding
this outcome is surprisingly easy.
Eric
Goldman
Eric Goldman is a Professor of Law at Santa Clara
University School of Law. He also directs the school's High
Tech Law
Institute. Before joining the SCU faculty in 2006,
he was an Assistant
Professor at Marquette University Law
School, General Counsel of Epinions.com,
and an Internet
transactional attorney at Cooley Godward LLP.
Eric teaches
and publishes in the areas of Internet Law,
Intellectual Property and
Advertising & Marketing Law. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 31 2012 @ 01:33 AM EDT |
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/30/mitt-romney-fema_n_2044213.html
'Mitt Romney refused to answer reporters' questions about how he would handle
the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), after a Tuesday "storm
relief" event in Ohio for Hurricane Sandy.'
'"Gov are you going to eliminate FEMA?" a print pooler shouted,
receiving no response."'
'"Gov you've been asked 14 times, why are you refusing to answer the
question?"'
'During a GOP primary debate last year, Romney had said he supported the idea of
states and private sector groups taking over responsibility for disaster
relief.'
'Every time you have an occasion to take something from the federal government
and send it back to the states, that's the right direction," he said.
"And if you can go even further and send it back to the private sector,
that's even better.'
Hmm. Where is SCO in all this? They are SCO. In a league of their own.
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Wednesday, October 31 2012 @ 02:07 AM EDT |
Google Crisis
Response
Hurricane Sandy Takes Out 25 Percent Of Cell Towers (so far)
People are charging their phones with diesel generators,
but if the
cell tower is now dead, it is a moot effort.
It is recommended to do text
instead of a call if you
can get a cell connection, in order to save your
battery
and to minimize the load on the network.
Note to Google: Please
disable the auto-complete search
feature, or make a button to turn it off. You
are not
helping with bandwidth usage.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 31 2012 @ 11:10 AM EDT |
El reg [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: artp on Wednesday, October 31 2012 @ 11:35 AM EDT |
H-Open has an article about
CodeWeavers giving away
Crossover for 24 hours. They were
running a "Get out the vote" campaign, and
met the goal, so
this is the result. Free download plus one year of
support.
A separate program will be run for people impacted by
Hurricane
Sandy.
I thought one or two people here might be
interested.
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When you're chained to an oar you don't think you should go down when the galley
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 31 2012 @ 11:49 AM EDT |
http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/31/3580728/microsoft-sued-for-infringing-patent-
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Authored by: artp on Wednesday, October 31 2012 @ 12:16 PM EDT |
Zydeco
is music that
comes out of the Louisiana
Creole
culture. Louisiana Creole is a French-black
fusion, one of many Creole cultures
around the world.
The
project that my friend, Tom, started has met its
Kickstarter goal, but it still has about 36
hours to go if you want to chip
in. It is a fascinating
project to me, because it preserves an ethnic culture
that
is very much regional, and doesn't fit in to the normal **AA
plans.
[Thank God!]
So they have enough to go forward with this. From their
website:
We are currently in the final stages of editing
and
will soon have the picture locked – meaning no more
editing changes! After the
film is picture locked, then it
will go to Color Correcting and Sound
Mastering. Once those
stages are complete then the film will be ready for Film
Festivals and Distribution!!
Take a look just for the
information. Even this Iowa rural
Irish-Czech fusion finds it fascinating. I'm
looking forward
to the film. All I know about Zydeco is what Zydeco
Buckwheat
did back in the 70s.
--- Userfriendly on WGA server outage:
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Authored by: jmc on Wednesday, October 31 2012 @ 12:24 PM EDT |
The same appeal panel as dismissed Apple's appeals 2 weeks ago is reconvened
tomorrow 1st November at 9:15 to hear Samsung's application.
Link and
search for Samsung or Apple.
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Authored by: JamesK on Wednesday, October 31 2012 @ 01:18 PM EDT |
Users are apparently finding the touch-screen functions and
tiled interface difficult to use --- The following program contains
immature subject matter.
Viewer discretion is advised. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 31 2012 @ 02:14 PM EDT |
Not heard anything about this [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Wednesday, October 31 2012 @ 02:29 PM EDT |
Regarding the cell tower outages, the spin is good.
The FCC says 25 percent down.
Verizon reports 6 percent.
T-Mobile reports 20 percent.
AT&T is not talking much.
The best they will say is that a majority are up.
Do the math. The odds are good that AT&T has
over 25 percent down.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 31 2012 @ 07:16 PM EDT |
"A mobile telephone is designed to be used by
several different end-users at different times. A first end-
user can alter the mobile telephone so that it operates in a
manner specific to that first end-user and a subsequent end-
user can alter the mobile telephone so that it operates in a
manner specific to that subsequent end-user; wherein each
end-user has only to respond to prompts displayed on a
screen in order to alter the mobile telephone so that it
operates in a manner specific to that end-user" <a href
="http://www.androidauthority.com/android-4-2-multi-user-
127142/">link</a>[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 31 2012 @ 07:42 PM EDT |
12-year-old uses Dungeons and Dragons to help scientist dad with
his research
Alan Kingstone, a psychologist at the University of
British Columbia, had a problem: all humans have their eyes in the middle of
their faces, and there’s nothing that Kingstone could do about it. His
12-year-old son, Julian Levy, had the solution: monsters.
While some
monsters are basically humanoid in shape, others have eyes on their hands,
tails, tentacles and other unnatural body parts. Perfect. Kingstone would use
monsters. And Julian would get his first publication in a journal from the Royal
Society, one of the world’s most august scientific
institutions.
[...]
In the meantime, the paper describing the
results—delightfully entitled “Monsters are people too”—has been published in
Biology Letters. Kingstone wrote it with postdoc Tom Foulsham, but Levy did the
rest. He prepared the images, trained himself to use the eye-tracker, ran the
experiment, and coded all the data. Accordingly, at the current age of 14, he’s
the first author on the paper.
Ed
Yong, Discover Magazine
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“Monsters are people too”
http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2012/10/25/rsbl.2012.0850.f
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, October 31 2012 @ 11:21 PM EDT |
If you've never seen this before, it's totally great:
Juice Rap News episode 15: Big
Brother is WWWatching You
I must have watched it at least half a dozen
times now... its full of brilliant
soundbites (my favorite was "War of Terror")
and subtle references (such
as General Baxter's compulsion to do a Nazi salute,
just like Dr.
Strangelove).
All of their previous episodes are pretty good
too, but 15 is just amazing! [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: artp on Wednesday, October 31 2012 @ 11:30 PM EDT |
You really need to read/watch this article on trading
candy entitled "An Economic
Guide To Trading Your
Halloween Candy". From Techdirt. Of course.
Hilarious! I
only wish that I'd had it when my kids were
young...
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Authored by: tiger99 on Thursday, November 01 2012 @ 09:18 AM EDT |
BBC Windoze RT is
clearly not fit for purpose (yet, and probably never), and M$ are
undercutting the PC manufacurers on price. Maybe Ballmer is trying to save his
job by creating a new Monopoly in hardware? If so, underpricing is regarded as
illegal dumping in some places, and attracts anti-trust action. If Acer are
displeased, I would expect that the other manufacturers will be too. I wonder if
they will be provoked sufficiently to shift their attention back to
Android? Whatever, the good news is that M$ are coming unstuck yet again,
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