idobi - Slashdot User

Comment Re:Automation and unemployment (Score 1) 602

by idobi on Sunday December 09, 2012 @08:13PM (#42237659) Attached to: A US Apple Factory May Be Robot City

Robotic factories don't exist in a vacuum. They need to buy boxes to package the product, drivers and railcars to ship things to customers. Not to mention the short term employment to build the factories. Even a fully automated factory will need at least 15 full time employees to maintain the factory. That's not including the part time security and cleaning staff. That's a minimum of 50 jobs that didn't exist before, and for the Apple factory would probably be closer to 200.

Comment Re:How is it even possible to innovate these days? (Score 2, Informative) 286

by idobi on Wednesday August 29, 2012 @01:28PM (#41169121) Attached to: In Wake of Samsung Verdict, HTC Does Not Intend To Settle

A patent is, by definition, not secret. The fundamental requirement for getting a patent is disclosure of the invention.

Who is the genius who modded you informative?

Invention Secrecy Act allows the patent office to classify defense-relatd patents secret: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_Secrecy_Act

Comment Re:The big difference here is (Score 1) 679

by idobi on Sunday June 10, 2012 @04:36PM (#40277387) Attached to: History Will Revere Bill Gates and Forget Steve Jobs, Says Author

The money he spends on Charity work is less than the interest he makes on his fortunes. Its hard for me to find it impressive.

That's how sustainable foundations work. You donate portions of your interest and grow your principal so that you can do so again the next year, and the year after that, and the year after that.. theoretically into perpetuity and at least long after the founder is dead.

Comment Re:All risk is relative (Score 1) 398

by idobi on Friday March 09, 2012 @05:37PM (#39306059) Attached to: Coca-Cola and Pepsi Change Recipe To Avoid Cancer Warning

It's gonna be red M&Ms all over again...

Comment Re:Co-Locate (Score 2) 225

by idobi on Monday February 27, 2012 @10:54PM (#39181519) Attached to: Suggestions For Music Hosting?

I'll second EGI Hosting. We use them to run our radio station, and they're affordable and reliable.

Comment Re:It's the business model (Score 4, Insightful) 192

by idobi on Wednesday December 28, 2011 @01:23PM (#38516632) Attached to: Samsung Reconsidering Android 4.0 On the Galaxy S

Nothing requires you to update your 3gs to iOS5 - but you can if you want to. As opposed to an update not being available at all... Aside from providing an upgrade path, is Apple also suppose to hold back features that highlight their new models in an effort to prevent performance issues in older models?

Comment Re:what about motorola? (Score 1) 406

by idobi on Friday October 28, 2011 @07:00PM (#37875032) Attached to: Samsung Takes the Lead In the Smartphone Market

They just released their third quarter numbers yeaterday: almost 100,000 xoom tablets and almost 5 million android smart phones. With numbers like those, it's no wonder Apple had such a lousy quarter. Get used to it Cupertino!

You also got the part about where it lost $32M doing it too, right?

Comment What patents comes with the purchase? (Score 1) 578

by idobi on Monday August 15, 2011 @12:31PM (#37095820) Attached to: Google To Acquire Motorola Mobility For $12.5 Bill

It occurs to me that Motorola Inc. owns the patent, not Motorola Mobility. In the purchase of Motorola Mobility, it's not clear what patents are included in the deal. I doubt Motorola just handed Google their entire patent portfolio. Did Motorola just trick Google into buying an empty bag?

Comment Re:Grand Theft? (Score 2) 178

by idobi on Saturday June 25, 2011 @09:54PM (#36573102) Attached to: Off-Duty Police Officer Steals iPad From TSA Checkpoint

In Miami, Grand Theft is >$300

Comment Re:Lets just make owning a computer illegal (Score 1) 248

by idobi on Wednesday June 15, 2011 @11:27AM (#36451100) Attached to: EU Ministers Seek To Ban Creation of Hacking Tools

Banning computers would put too many companies out of business. We should just ban operating systems. That way all these other tools won't work, and we only put a handful of companies out of business... none of them from the EU.

Comment Re:A Microsoft Nokia bad-analogy award (Score 1) 475

by idobi on Monday February 14, 2011 @02:07AM (#35196848) Attached to: Why Nokia Is Toast

Check their investor statements. Non-Xbox related products are a rounding error for the division. Most of the profit (and loss) are from the Xbox.

Comment Re:A Microsoft Nokia bad-analogy award (Score 1) 475

by idobi on Monday February 14, 2011 @12:35AM (#35196614) Attached to: Why Nokia Is Toast

http://www.mondaynote.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/Xbox-Kinect.png

Comment Re:A Microsoft Nokia bad-analogy award (Score 1) 475

by idobi on Sunday February 13, 2011 @10:47PM (#35196230) Attached to: Why Nokia Is Toast

Hint: get your facts right otherwise you just look stupid, the XBox division has been turning a profit for years. In fact the year to June 08 netted almost 1/2 a billion dollars in profit for that year alone and has been turning a healthy profit ever since. So yes it *is* a phenomenal success.

Recent profit yes: But $10B loss + $4B profit still leaves them $6B in the hole...

Comment Re:She's not dead (Score 1) 2166

by idobi on Saturday January 08, 2011 @04:30PM (#34806736) Attached to: Congresswoman and Staff Gunned Down

She voted for the healthcare bill despite knowing that 67% of her constituents opposed it. She's no "representative." Just a political whackjob

...and yet she was reelected by those same constituents, so apparently they think she represented them well enough.

Comment Re:This is why I refuse to buy apple products. (Score 2, Insightful) 754

by idobi on Friday January 07, 2011 @08:33PM (#34799594) Attached to: Apple Pulls VLC Media Player From AppStore

It's suddenly Apple's fault that the developers squabble over GNU license?

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