Comment Re:Production cost (Score 1) 205
I was in India a few months ago and saw the car there. Its price in India was almost one third of this.
Submission + - Broadcom Releases Source Code for Drivers (osnews.com)
I'm Not There (1956) writes: Broadcom, the world's largest manufacturer of Wi-Fi transceivers, open sources it's Linux device drivers. This is a big win for Linux users, as there are a lot of users that face Wi-Fi problems when they user Linux on their laptops. With this device drivers now open source, distributions can ship them out-of-the-box, and that means no Linux Wi-Fi problem for new devices and upcoming distributions at all.
Comment Re:It is getting pretty popular, actually (Score 1) 355
Moreover, why are we comparing this to Wikipedia? The point about Wikipedia is that everybody can edit it. Before Wikipedia all the encyclopedias were like Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, and there are still lots of them. We actually need both of these kinds of encyclopedias. Indeed SEP is a great encyclopedia, adapted very well for the web, and fortunately free for all the readers, but just because it's published on the web doesn't mean we have to compare it with Wikipedia.
Submission + - They Finally Found Out We Like Our Computers (venturebeat.com)
I'm Not There (1956) writes: Sociologist Clifford Nass is talking about how people think of their computers as something like a human being. In one of his experiments, Nass found out the people are willing to help computers when they the computer treats them as well too: "When people were then asked to help optimize the screen resolution on a computer where the program had been 'helpful,' they were much more likely to do so than with the less helpful version." Nass has recently published the book The Man Who Lied to His Laptop, in which "in which he uses our interactions with machines to investigate how human relationships could be improved."
Comment Not even as a defensive measure. (Score 2, Interesting) 311
Even though we had a basic distaste for patents, the game is what it is, and patents are essential in modern corporations, if only as a defensive measure.
I really appreciate their work at mocking patents law system, but I can't agree with this part. While we can't change patent laws, we can at least avoid having them. We're not forced to patent our ideas just to protect them, because nobody can make sure the very same patents won't be used for suing other developers. I live in Iran and our patent system isn't as silly and as serious as America's, but I'm trying to avoid even this. I've come with an idea for a new Persian soft keyboard for our own commercial product. Everybody says "it's so innovative. How are you going to patent this?" I'm totally avoiding this, even at the risk of our brand new idea being copied by the others. Fortunately my company is supporting this, but alas, our chance for changing behavior of big companies is even less than odds of changing patent laws.
Submission + - Oracle sues Google over Java patents in Android (marketwatch.com)
I'm Not There (1956) writes: Oracle claims 7 Java-related patent and copyright infringements in Anrdoid, saying "Google has been aware of Sun's patent portfolio, including the patents at issue, since the middle of this decade, when Google hired certain former Sun Java engineers." There are not much to read about this yet, but we can read this old but informative post about the matter.
Comment Remote Application Removal (Score 1) 335
Now they can use their Remote Application Removal feature.
Submission + - The Puzzle of Japanese Web Design (zeldman.com)
I'm Not There (1956) writes: Jeffrey Zeldman brings up the interesting issue of paradox between Japan's strong background in simplicity and complexity of Japanese websites. The post invites you to see http://www.mhlw.go.jp/ and a few other websites, which all are as crowded as it can get. "It is odd that in Japan, land of world-leading minimalism in the traditional arts and design, web users and skilled web design practitioners believe more is more."
Comment Re:C too complex? Hilarious. (Score 1) 878
You seem confused. He said C++ is complex, not C, and he is entirely right.
Yes. Actually, Pike loves C. He has written a C compiler for Plan 9. The language he co-designed was C-like. And I don't remember the source, but I once read that he writes object-oriented in C, using structures and pointers!
Comment Re:All of them (Score 1) 151
Actually, there's no need for a site listing open source jobs, because most of the time the contributer should be the user of the project, so you should keep looking at your own softwares, not a list of open source projects.
Comment Big shotgun, isn't it? (Score 1) 97
These magical pills can make your main weapon bigger than your shotgun.
Comment It also adds an "option" for searching using Bing (Score 3, Insightful) 308
Such a shame for a browser in 2010 that it needs an update for adding a search engine to the available search options.
