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While not my first thought (I had baby photos etc come up in my mind), to be fair, if this app does gain any traction, inappropriate photobombing people's phones will become a thing - and that's not good for Facebook.
Not particularly. As it stands now, FeedBurner feels more like a utility whereas Reader is a service.
Lower capacity guns are still freely available.
He wrote a piece on this for the NYTimes recently, linked below
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/17/opinion/australia-banned-a...
It will be an unpopular position, especially amongst conservatives who seem to believe that Gun rights and right wing politics go hand in hand (I'll note that John Howard led our main conservative party in initiating the buyback).
It has surely worked for us. Our gun violence statistics have dropped dramatically since the scheme was implemented.
The addition of providing a superior experience (custom meat combos? Slicing ingredients on the fly) might not have occurred to them. I think that emphasising the high output gourmet burger is the way forward. Especially since McDonald's has already proven that "Masstige" does have a spot in the food prep industry.
Our death rate due to firearms has reduced by half since our automatic/semi automatic buyback program initiated in 1996 and yet, the number of guns sold last year was the same[1] as pre-1996 levels.
[1] http://www.theage.com.au/national/australians-restock-the-gu...
The reality is that that thought scares the living shit out of everyone and its become culturally accepted that there is a line in the sand on what types of weapons should be available to people. Perhaps the line for the US needs to be redrawn.
As has been shown in other countries (specifically, Australia where I live) when you reduce the availability of weapons that are designed purely for mass killing (our buyback scheme went pretty smoothly in 1996), the ability of people to do mass killing goes down. We have approximately 1/3 the number of firearm related deaths[1] (both accidental and not) than the US has of just homicides alone per 100k people[2].
Thats not to say guns aren't still available. They are. That's not to say people still don't get killed with guns, because they do. But the numbers just dont lie.
[1] http://www.gunpolicy.org/firearms/region/australia [2] http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm
IANAL but the main difference between surveillance video and his supposed demonstration here is that he is publishing them for public viewing.
I expect that would require a release form of some kind to be signed as as such is violating some laws.
The act of videoing itself is probably not against the law, but doing it without the express permission of the subjects with the view of publishing it later, is.
If you didn't even have to plug it in, just drive it to work, park it, drive it home, park it and it could charge automagically in both parking spots - its much more convenient than petroleum and would potentially be a big plus FOR getting an EV.
1 - http://software.intel.com/en-us/videos/channel/general/wirel...
It would be a great help in trying out their stuff.
Unusual yes, but not unheard of.
As a personal anecdote, there is a close friend of my family who has been facing extradition to another country merely for questioning over something that he allegedly did in 1944.
I do it so that the kernels come off cleanly and don't get stuck in your teeth (very similar to cutting them off). I wonder where that puts me?
They are the almost defacto standard for personal payments online will keep them in the top spot for a long time due to network effects. Without a serious shift in usage, its hard to see that changing any time soon.
As an anecdote, my grandmother passed away last week. Her 86 year old sister back in Germany asked us if we had PayPal this week so she could send flowers for her funeral. It may not be a "hot" company in the US, but its still highly relevant to the vast majority of internet users, even ones that are only just venturing onto the web.
[1] I don't know the actual number as everywhere I've looked suggests between 13% and 15%. I figure less than 20% is a safe bet.
I personally use evernote. Works well enough
A telemarketer from the bank I used to be with called me on the day of my brother's funeral to try and sell me life insurance.
Terribly bad timing as at the time I was waiting for the car to pick my mother and myself up to lay him to rest.
I'd like to say I handled it well, but I didn't. I vaguely recall some hefty swearing on my part the next day as I closed my account with them.
These distribution issues become even worse for us as there are time where content isn't even available when you want to go actually pay for it.
Then we have problems where content isn't available for months after its release. In a world where we are being involved in conversations that happen worldwide (eg, via Twitter), having to wait several months for that content to even become available (that's if it is available at all) is problematic at best and utterly stupid at worst. EDIT - because of spoilers
Pirating content is just so much more convenient (which I'd imagine is at least part of the reason why its rampant). It shouldn't be easier to get content for free than to pay for it.
Once you've paid for content, you shouldn't be made to feel like a criminal or have a reduced experience, which is what we are experiencing now with those "Pirating is stealing" unskippable ads at the beginning of those region locked DVD's they're so happy to sell us.
No wonder they think they're losing, its because they are - and its their own damn fault.
Show production isn't necessarily out of the scope of whats possible as I've posted about the disconnect between cost of entertainment in the past on HN
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=552394
I still believe digital animation is an environment where a small startup could produce content to pave the way for the online market. This was something I looked at some years ago - it turns out that I'm simply not talented enough as an animator to do anything like this.
However, I am reposting links to my previous thoughts in the hope that someone who is talented enough can potentially make it work. I'd love to see someone beat Hollywood at their own game.
or for something more visual
http://trendistic.indextank.com/siri
People are talking more about Siri since the release date (on average) and for more dramatic effect, look at the results over a 30 day timeframe - not bad considering that Siri is essentially 2 year old technology.
Yeah, people are impressed by Siri, even if they just want to make fun of it (in Australia we call that Tall Poppy Syndrome)
Similarly, you don't see other manufacturers producing phones that they intend to still thoroughly support in a couple years time, which is why there is so much fragmentation in the Android ecosystem.
I think this is a key thing in Apple's market strategy across the board - you're not just buying hardware that will be out of date in 6 months time, you're purchasing a utility which will be more or less current for a couple years to come (like what we've seen in Macs).
I think its a smart move. It builds trust with the user base.
That way, when people are on their 2 year contract cycles, you either sit on the "new shiny" or the "advanced shiny" cycle, so consumers rarely lose out depending which cycle their contract ends in, since there are pros and cons for both.
I'd say its smart business.
Paul Barnett, who was a lead video game designer for Warhammer Online. He wore the same clothes everyday for convenience (going out and purchasing a set of shirts/jeans/shoes in a single stroke) - which he would then change on a yearly/6monthly basis.
They're known for their high quality displays and they already have a lot of the other technology that would be coupled with it - FaceTime, Siri, iCloud/iTunes, App store.
In fact, I think Siri and Facetime are both the key parts here. If you can get your TV to do things for you (eg book flights) and also use it as a simple communication point (FaceTime) - its in the realm of "future technology" that people think of when they imagine what's coming.