Maybe, but OUYA still received $8 million in funding with the promise that "ALL GAMES FREE TO PLAY". The fact that they're going back on their promise now makes every kickstarter campaign look bad.

Whether the games are free or not is the not the reason OUYA is failing, the reasons are obvious: it doesn't play regular android games (game must be OUYA compatiable), poor controller, it's slower than modern smartphones and tablets, and when you can just plug your tablet or smartphone into your TV why buy a OUYA at all?

Ok, but if you charge the 18 wheeler more, how long before you decide to charge the pickup truck more? or sedan? or maybe make a special license so only 18 wheelers with your license can use the road and no one else? How long before they go after Youtube? Or Amazon Video? Or Facebook? Or Google? Or XBox Live? Anyone can make an argument that some service or website is "using more than others so you should pay more" but we're already paying for the service, we pay for the internet, what we decide to do with it is our business, whether we have unlimited or a 5gb cap or metered, if we want to use all of it for netflix instead of youtube why does that matter? Customers of these ISPs are paying for the net-neutrality already, they don't need to charge more. There will always be some website or service or something that uses a bit more than everyone else. If they start charging Netflix then they'll need to start charging Youtube, and then etc, before long they're charging every website or service that uses the internet that we're already paying for.

No other utility functions like this. The electric company doesn't say "oh you're using electricity for a air conditioner? We charge extra for air conditioners". No, they say "here is your electricity, use it as you see fit, whether it's a A/C or a dozen bitcoin servers or an electric car, we don't care how it's used, you are paying for that electricity." Internet should work the same way, they should charge us whatever they want to charge us and let us use the internet anyway we want, whether it's netflix or youtube or amazon prime.

Lol I wish smartphones lasted 15-20 hours with normal use, or maybe it does if I don't use it for 15 hours? I'm sorry but I bought this thing to actually use it. When it can play a game and run gps software for 20 hours straight then I will be happy, until then the batteries suck. Maybe that's why nokia brick phones lasted so long, no gps or clash of clans to suck the battery dry in a few hours.

After reading the article I do not agree with spark fun. Seems they knew exactly what they were doing, copying the exact look of a fluke dmm and selling it, and when they got caught they cried foul. Seriously spark fun man up and make them a different color, or did you copy fluke because you knew it would sell more dmm? I have two dmm and they're both red because the color doesn't matter unless you're trying to copy someone's trademark.

Googles version of free involves harvesting every personal detail about your life from now until the end of time. They say it's just for advertising but it could be used for so much worse, and the fact that android users just hand google every email, every photo, every video, every text, every password, where they are located at all times and all of their friends and family information is very scary. If apple is doing it at least they're not trying to make a social network and making it obvious. Wanna hear really scary? Recently Facebook asked me to rate places on Facebook.... places I had been but did not tag on Facebook. Apparently I may have checked my Facebook while at that location and Facebook went ahead and silently tagged that I was at that place. Now what if Facebook shared that info with the business while I was there and the business decided to have live ads saying "hello iamhassi do you need (blank)?" Or if using google android, they could scan my recent conversations and see what items I recently said I wanted to purchase. Scary indeed, minority report is here.

True, but there were many touchscreen phones before iPhones and none had the "obvious" slide to unlock feature. I had palm and windows mobile smartphones, both had touchscreens and neither unlocked like that. I love how no one does it until Apple but once Apple started doing that it's now "obvious" and shouldn't be patentable? That's BS, apple deserves the patent and to charge for it, if they don't like it then they can continue doing things the way palm and windows mobile did, which is press the power button to wake up the screen which seems pretty obvious to me.

No, not like that at all.

/. likes Tesla so they don't have to play by the rules but /. hates Apple so they must play by the rules.

Make sense?

You are right. Google glass is like walking around with a camcorder pointing at people all the time. Even if it appeared to not be recording I do not think I would trust the user and besides who wants to answer the "are you recording me??" question you're going to hear constantly? Don't even get me started if you try to wear them in a bathroom. Google is not perfect they have had many projects fail and glass is just one of many.

I'm sure someone figured it out long ago and I'm sure fishing line has probably already been used for this purpose. This is just the first time someone was willing to swallow their pride and publish it in a scientific journal. I'm sure there are scientists and engineers out there saying "no duh" and "thanks captian obvious" to this article.

I'm glad I'm not the only one. Is this a chinese only app? Because 450 million is more than everyone in the US, hard to believe savvy /. users would not have heard of it

actually that doesn't sound unreasonable, you have to figure they got at least $100,000 of use from the photos and the rest is essentially free, putting him down as a sponsor, putting his name on the photos he took.... all sounds like reasonable requests. And that $100,000 provides royal free usage of all photos he has provided the color run from now until eternity, I would think that's a great deal for the color run.

I thought the same, disappointed to read story is no different from someone losing their phone. Faith in slashdot diminishing

Actually nevermind UK isn't any better than the US since UK does not respect free speech

I wish I could mod this troll but unfortunately the last few years sure makes this seem +1 Informative. How the mighty has fallen, I hope the next administration stops all this spying

Exactly. Brick builder is probably a contractor hired to build that wall and nothing else, so he (or his boss) is paid a set amount to build wall. Programmer that is hired hourly is paid for any work he does while working hourly, so just like any other hourly employee that makes a mistake at work the programmer is paid the same hourly whether a project takes 10 hours or 100 hours. Think McDonald's employee that drops soda, aren't they paid to clean up that soda?