Comment Funding (Score 1) 366
I wonder where they get their funding from? Too bad John's not around to provide "out-of-the-box" strategic fundraising ideas.
Comment Re:Live Long and Please End Raw Nerve (Score 1) 226
And don't forget his psychotic atonal pleadings: "Mr. tambourine man? MR. TAMBOURINE MAN??!!!!!"
Comment Self Assembly (Score 0) 117
So in just sixteen hours it assembled itself? Cool!
Comment Re:Lesson (not) learnt by music and games industry (Score 1) 304
I sometimes wonder how much market research the music and book publishers have (not) put into their pricing models. If they sell 1,000 copies at $10/each or 3,000 copies at $4/each, then tell me, at which price point do both the publisher AND consumer benefit?
BTW, I think we're seeing this with iOS and Android apps. There are a lot of promising apps out there for two or three dollars that I am very willing to take a risk on. A lot of app developers are obviously going for volume sales.
Comment Re:Nook Color (Score 1) 396
Mine has been rooted now for about two weeks. It is an extremely low-risk process, does not remove any of the Nook functionality, and is completely reversible. I have been extremely pleased with the performance. I think the only reason you wouldn't choose the Nook Color would be if you wanted something larger.
Comment Re:Amazon Kindle Store - Periodicals (Score 1) 184
Yeah, it's sort of mind boggling to me. I can get Vanity Fair for $12 per year delivered in print to my mailbox. Or, I can get the Nook Color edition for $35.88 per year, or $4.99 per issue individually. It really makes no sense at all.
Comment Re:It was a dumb idea (Score 1) 184
I just got the Nook Color. I love it. It's a great platform, especially when it is rooted/liberated/emancipated.
However, I experienced frustration shopping for graphic novels last night on through it's native shopping applet. I assumed there would be some Will Eisner, etc. "Color Nook Edition" versions of his books. I really couldn't find anything. That's a disappointment. I'm not sure why they haven't leveraged that functionality. Maybe the screen is too small? I'll have to test it out with some Android CBR apps when I have a chance.
ITC Investigates Xbox 360 After Motorola Complaint 71
FlorianMueller writes "The US International Trade Commission, which is increasingly popular as a patent enforcement agency, voted to investigate a complaint filed by Motorola against Microsoft last month. Motorola claims that the Xbox infringes five of its patents. In October, Microsoft complained against Motorola, alleging patent infringement by its Android-based smartphones. Apple, Nokia and HTC are also involved with ITC investigations as complainants and respondents. A new one-page overview document shows the ongoing ITC investigations related to smartphones and the products that the complainants would like to have banned from entry into the US market. The good news is that any import bans won't be ordered until long after Christmas. The ITC is faster than courts, but not that fast."
Comment Re:What about CD to .mp3 converters and so on? (Score 5, Funny) 367
The Sony music division should sue the Sony computer division for putting CD/DVD burners on their Vaio laptops. Sony Music should also sue the Sony media division for selling blank CD-Rs and DVD-Rs.
Comment Re:Simple option? (Score 2, Informative) 360
For at least ten years now I have ritualistically picked these up (as well as the yellow pages) from my front porch and carried them directly through the back door to my recycle bin.
Debt Collectors Using Facebook To Embarrass Those Who Owe 266
Not even the tranquility of FarmVille can save you from the long arm of debt collectors. Melanie Beacham says that a collector from MarkOne Financial contacted her relatives about her past due car note via Facebook. She is filing suit alleging that the company is harassing her family. Tampa based consumer attorney Billy Howard of Morgan & Morgan says, "Now Facebook does a debt collectors work for them. Now it's not only family members, it's all of your associates. It's a very powerful tool for debt collectors to use."
Comment Daylight Savings Change (Score 5, Interesting) 335
I think one aspect of this story that hasn't been mentioned is the fact that daylight savings time kicked in the previous day. So, let's say this is a regular weekday flight that arrives in Phoenix in the early evening. After the November 7th "fall back" daylight savings time change, this flight, which may have passed over L.A. in bright daylight on Friday November 5th, is now illuminated on Monday November 8th with dramatic dusk lighting, resulting in a very different looking contrail.
Comment Performance for what?!! (Score 2, Funny) 384
I initially read this comment as "I am heavily into pornography."
Pope Says Technology Causes Confusion Between Reality and Fiction 779
Pope Benedict XVI has warned that people are in danger of being unable to discern reality from fiction because of new technologies, and not old books. "New technologies and the progress they bring can make it impossible to distinguish truth from illusion and can lead to confusion between reality and virtual reality. The image can also become independent from reality, it can give birth to a virtual world, with various consequences -- above all the risk of indifference towards real life," he said.
Computer Defeats Human At Japanese Chess 178
Calopteryx writes "A computer has beaten a human at shogi, otherwise known as Japanese chess, for the first time. As New Scientist reports, computers have beaten humans at western chess before, but that game is relatively simple, with only about 10^123 possible games existing that can be played out. Shogi is a *bit* more complex, offering about 10^224 possible games."
