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It strikes me that Mr. Miller is awash in this sea of discontent about prescient facts presently nearly inaccessible because of his profession. If he were a Philosophy Ph.D candidate, I doubt lack of Internet access would be so pronounced. Most of what a Philosopher needs isn’t found online except in transcribed form.

I know you won’t read this, Mr. Miller, but you’re in a dingy in that sea of Internet knowledge because you’re surrounded – in work and in play – by those whom continually choose and prefer Internet knowledge to penned or printed information.

Find those trailing paper and you’ll stay on your trail of Internet ignorance and stay away from an ingnomious ending.

P.S. I love that my Mac didn’t know how to spell ignomious.

I don’t mean to be judgmental, but you just sound like a fanboy calling a celebrity you don’t know by his first name. Unless you do know him, in which case you’re biased.

Speaking as an employee who worked for a dot-com in 2000 and was unceremoniously given hardly any notice of my layoff, I can tell you that it is not the mark of a good businessman that he waited until the bitter end – it’s the mark of an unrealistic person who cared more of his own image or the image of his company over giving loyal employees with families (and apparently now two mortgages) ample notice to search for work.

As an owner of two TiVos – a Premere and an HD – this just seems like a money grab. Why exactly can’t my very expensive TiVo do this when people did it with hacking nearly a decade ago?? There were programs where you could stream to a connected PC for a while too – now I need an external box?

I don’t pay the exorbitant cable fees – I use an OTA antenna to get my local channels and then pay Hulu Plus for other content. Yes – I know they’re going to require a cable subscription, which I technically have since I have a cable modem with basic cable. I don’t use the basic cable as the antenna gives me better quality.

TiVo is digging themselves a grave with this long-time customer. I’m finding less reasons to pay the TiVo fees per month.

I’ve never paid an ETF ever and I buy a device every year. It goes something like this: 1) Buy new device. 2) Use said device for a year or so. 3) This Is My Next Device comes out. 4) Ebay original device for at least 50% its full retail value. 5) pay hardly anything for TIMND by renewing contract, and getting a 1/2 subsidy on TIMND. 6) ???. 7) Pro… you get the idea. :)

Concur. 100% not a Nexus. And the screen’s too small to boot.

See – the ridiculousness of this import ban is that it’s on PROGRAMS that can be added / updated from the market. It’s not a default behavior of the OS insomuch as it’s using the Android hooks for intents to launch contextually correct items. There are tons of apps – third party dialers, third party SMS apps included – that do this same thing. It’d be like patenting clicking on a URL and indeed most are URIs that are passed IIRC.

This isn’t even about how horrid the patent system for software is – this is just plain STUPID.

The part you’re missing with your tact – even though I wish it were more viable – is that the data plans carry the cost of the subsidy regardless of your contractual status. The only nationwide carrier I know of that had unsubsidized data plans at one time was T-mobile, and I believer they have since discontinued those plans.

So even if you buy a phone off contract without a subsidy, you still pay out the nose for the bloody data plan that’s priced for a subsidized phone. In other words, you’re paying the carrier $10 or more a month that’s pure profit. They love this, FYI. So please don’t do it. Like it or not, the general public that’s buying iPhones and Galaxies want to buy a $199 phone and pay for it over two years for the rest of its real cost. See: original iPhone launch price.

Agreed. I’m not sure I use 38GB on my cable internet at home. Before I go the judgment route, what in the name of all that is good and mobile are you doing that you can use 38GB per month!!???

Is it just me, or does Paul look like Eddie Munster in that profile shot?

(minus the widow’s peak)

And of course, I meant Virtual Box. Duh.

Open Box, windows VM. Done (and what I use).

Ouch.

True, but ouch.

This is absolutely outstanding reporting by Bryan and the entire Verge on this subject. No other site has the combination of great real-world translations of legalese and the relation to how I, the non-legally-inclined, may be impacted. Bravo.

So – someone above mentioned iPad updates, but more importantly, with Apple switching to a purely digital delivery of their OS software, you’ll not even be able to get updates to fix annoying Lion issues (and there are a lot of annoying Lion issues). The old school Nokia should’t be affected (unless AT&T drops EDGE), but updates to software, including the OS, are going to be tough to miss. Although theoretically I suppose you could copy the update from a friend over a thumb drive, that would still be cheating since its source would be the Internet.

Regardless – good luck in your endeavor. :)

I quit facebook / twitter whenever I catch myself getting too engrossed in other’s lives or just in general feel it’s managing ME rather than the other way around. Each is preceded only by my normal goings on.

It drives some of my acquaintances crazy. At first I got a lot of passive-aggressive stuff, as if I’d defrinded them. Those either get an actual defriend or banished to my restricted group upon my return.

It’s like a wonderful sociological experiment each time I do it, and not a one of my real friends has cared. But as someone said above, I find myself coming back and using FB different – on my own terms (at least for a while) again.

However, I was kind of really too into WoW for a while. Quit that for over a year and picked it up in a phase of boredom recently. Like the commenter earlier, I found I used that completely differently now too – as pure entertainment rather than failing to fill a void I needed to fill with real interactions and people.

I think this is a subject similar to those who eschew epaper solutions for their paper-bound brethren. It’s not really about instagram, nor even about a different type of creativity – it is about the fear that an old medium that created amazing works of arts is being lost to time. Not that this fear isn’t without justification – just that it’s not well understood, perhaps even by those most vociferous about its being threatened.

The best way to ensure that something doesn’t exist only in the annals of history is to continue to keep old methods fresh with new ideas. The real tragedy is trying to go back to the time in which those methods were “new”. That always fails.

The idea of the API is what Google used, not the code FOR the API. Had they stolen the actual Java code of the API itself, yes – we’d have a big freaking problem™. However, the only code thus far identified was the one API call named after some guy which I can not currently recall. And they removed that in 4.0.