DrSprout

I'd be satisfied with an 8-hour battery and a solar panel that can charge it with 4 hours of full sunlight.

You have a very low opinion of users, but you have a very high confidence in their knowledge of what is installed on their computers. Even the assumption that they intentionally installed the toolbar to begin with is unwarranted. As you say, most people with Firefox likely never open IE. So they likely didn't even know this toolbar was installed.

Well, you have to factor in changing out of your running clothes and showering if you're in a "professional" environment.

Also I have bad knees that make even the mile I walked to the job I just quit a little difficult. I doubt they will ever heal enough that running is a good idea.

I'm actually looking to start out like this myself, and I found a small, poorly organized nonprofit that has a less than stellar website. They're dying to make a change, but they don't really want to put the time into it.

I suspect there are lots of nonprofits like this. Or smaller nonprofits that simply don't have websites. Soup kitchens and stuff might not be into the 21st century.

I'm actually looking to start out like this myself, and I found a small, poorly organized nonprofit that has a less than stellar website. They're dying to make a change, but they don't really want to put the time into it.

I suspect there are lots of nonprofits like this.

Luna

A cursory inspection of Posterous will show that it uses Google analytics. Google runs Blogger. It's a direct competitor, even though Tumblr has a much more similar feature set.

So given that Posterous happily lets Google collect stats about all their users and their business, your hypothesis is patently absurd.

>and most glee clubs probably don't make videos either so it seems fairly moot.

Half of them are carrying video recorders in their pockets. Sure, it's very low-fi stuff, but you're remarkably out of touch if you think that teenagers don't record themselves performing and upload it to YouTube and Facebook.

For every person who has gchat set to never document anything, there's another neurotic packrat like my brother who saves all of his chat history so he can go back and show people how prior conversations went whenever there's a disagreement over what was said.

>That’s why your game is region-locked. Got friends in Europe? Too bad. You can’t play with them. Blizzard has international Starcraft tournaments to sell.

You know, even with online-play only I might have been compelled to buy SC2, eventually after the price comes down.

But without international play I will have no choice but to schedule when I play around when other people are playing. I stopped gaming regularly when I entered college, and now it's something I do every once in a while, when I need to disappear from life for a while - it's not scheduled, and I don't want to have to worry about scheduling unless I'm scheduling a LAN party. - also an impossibility.

So no dice. I'd rather hack on 0 A.D. http://www.wildfiregames.com/0ad/

Or six years ago if you're willing to take some artistic liberties:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-april-22-2004/crash-at...

>Is one thing for a user to add a RSS feed, its another to pre-package it in a commercial app.

The only thing they are pre-packaging is a link. Yes, it displays the content, but it's no different from any other piece of client software in that regard. They do not pre-package any NYT content, which was what I mean when I said it's only a link.

The ad material is the only place where the NYT might have a case, but it seems pretty clear that was not their issue, or they would have objected to the ad, not the software.

Sourceforge itself is kind of an eyesore for all the projects hosted there, regardless of the design of their primary website.

Yes, it would be horrible if people could send messages longer than 140 characters via Twitter. The Internet as we know it would collapse.

It's a link. It's no different from being in the default set of bookmarks. If that's "pre-packaging," anyone who distributes a link to the NYTimes with paid software is guilty of the same thing.

This really isn't that big of a shift from Skype et al. until it's available on 3G. And you know what? I haven't used a webcam in years. Not an extraordinarily useful piece of technology, and it's still not the best experience even on wired networks (because the wired networks have been frozen in time here in the States.)

And as for it being at normal data rates on 3G, I'll believe it when I see it. (It can't be free.)

>Apple is moving the goalpost for UI performance seemingly faster than Google can keep up.

You can't make statements like that until you have a Nexus One running Froyo side-by-side with the new iPhone. Google just introduced a newly optimized Dalvik Virtual Machine, and I expect it will be quite competitive.

There is definitely something to be said for taking a bit of time to truly have a negligible effect on anything of importance.

That's really weird. I use firefox with NoScript for all my browsing, and if I need Flash or something I fire up Chrome.

Of course, this is on desktop Ubuntu. On my Droid I guess I just use Chrome...

Do you care for a family on your own? I'm talking about a specific class of people - primarily unwed single mothers - who do not have time for themselves. Their time is eaten up by making money for their families and caring for them.

Simply making the declarations that poor people don't want to work, and poor people are generally fat, even if true, ignore sizable quantities of people for whom exercise and healthy eating are not feasible.

http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/09poverty.shtml

Poverty level for a 4-person household (which a single mother with three children would be) is $22,050/year. 3-person is $18,310.

50 hours a week @ $7.25/hr (federal minimum wage) * 52 weeks/year = $18824.

Although, good luck finding 50 hours a week of work in this economy.

And that only applies to US citizens. Never mind undocumented immigrants. (Though many do earn minimum wage and pay taxes.) Restaurants will often split low-income workers to avoid either restaurant giving them more than 40 hours a week, so they can avoid overtime and benefits.

To call it gluttony is insulting to those who work 50+ hours a week, can barely get by, and yet are still overweight. Food is not a significant part of cost of living in the US, especially if you eat poorly. The paradox is that eating poorly actually ends up being gluttonous if we're looking at it from a health standpoint.

But many of the people you're insulting do not have the luxury of eating healthy meals and going for 30 minute runs every other day.

That's fine for development, but it's simply untrue to show features in development and claim that they represent usable support for standards.

Theoretically you don't finish the relief well, so you can quickly finish it should the main one blow.

The big risk though is that depending on how good your understanding of the geology is, this could increase your risk.

It doesn't work very well. There have been occasions where I've accidentally left the PandoraService running on my Droid overnight (not playing music mind you, but that doesn't stop it from sapping battery) and woke up in the morning to find my battery nearly dead and the battery tool claiming that it was "Android System."

Though I suppose it's possible that was a bug in the service management stuff...

>I disagree with this. Software is mostly a product of API flexibility rather than the number of potential users.

I'm filling out a job application that is a Word Document that absolutely vomits when read in OpenOffice. If there were fewer people using Word, they wouldn't be able to get away with that. There's a part of me that doesn't want to work in that sort of shop, but I'm only a year out of college, and if I have to do C# to get a developer position, I'll take that, C# isn't a bad language.

That said, I can't get away with using Linux because of the potential users problem. Now I guess you could call the .doc format an API flexibility problem, but no API is sufficiently flexible that it runs anywhere without testing. There has to be enough of a userbase to justify testing.

How much have you done there? I found the technological challenges people faced in the Amazon pretty fantastic when I visited Yachana Lodge [http://www.yachana.com/] in Ecuador. This was a few years ago, and their use of water wheels, (some made out of bicycle tires) gas engines, and mesh networks to get around the difficulty of wiring and power generation was simply fascinating.

>If you want to implement a Google Voice solution, you’re more than welcome to, via the browser.

The browser is completely inadequate to the task. I don't even think Webkit has the audio input features implemented yet, and if they exist they're completely useless for any real-world applications, especially on a phone.

Telling people to use APIs that don't exist yet is nonsense.

TI and Freescale are both in the same boat when we're talking about mobile Internet devices. They both have a variety of products that currently have a very small set of specialized software that runs on them. In order to gain traction against the x86 desktop and iPhone OS, they need platforms like Android and MeeGo to work flawlessly with minimal configuration on all of their hardware.

We're quickly getting to the stage where we want these devices talking directly to printers. All of the companies involved want to make sure that as much as possible, printing companies can write one driver and have it work anywhere. Better still would be if no custom driver were needed.

There's also the current issues with upgrading existing devices to newer Android releases. If they can streamline the low-level stuff to get updates out quickly on Google's heels, it will add considerable value to their products.

So there's definitely a lot of motivation for them to clean up the embedded Linux ecosystem.

The original author was looking forward to selling it. He sold it to BitTorrent. BitTorrent is looking forward to selling uTorrent to media companies for swarm-based content distribution.