Category: Technology

Kitten BBQ = bad.

With Wikipedia dark today in protest, here’s a quote from Tim Bray’s blog today:

In the big picture, the proposed legislation will be ineffective at preventing sleazebags and broke undergrads from watching movies without paying for them, but it will significantly damage the usefulness of the Internet and provide extremely dangerous openings for censorship and for incumbent oligopolists to resist useful disruption. History teaches us that these openings will be exploited to the maximum extent possible, and in the case of this legislation the maximum extent is frightening.

I really don’t have anything to add to that…

Well this is just flat out cool…

This blog, from two major VC guys, could be very interesting…

As Android users know, Amazon does a free app every single day in their market. The last two days have been holiday kids interactive books.

Yesterday’s was an interactive Charlie Brown Christmas and today is the classic Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.

Which my girls are currently watching on my Kindle Fire.

Ho, ho, ho, Merry Christmas…

Well duh. Better late than never…

Honestly, any blog post containing that phrase simply has to be worth reading. Especially when it is in reference to a recent topic of mine. It’s a great phrase, though I don’t think I would have even spelled it right…

On top of that, he gets in the word “suckitude”, which I’m pretty sure isn’t a word, but in this context I still like.

Danielle and I have had our Kindles for a little over a month now. When they first came out I read many positive reviews. Now I seem to read only horrible reviews of the Fire. It’s selling like crazy but apparently everyone hates it. Hmm.

For the record, Danielle and I love it as much as when we first got it. When we take the train up to my wife’s sister’s (hour and a half) we bring the Kindles and leave the iPad.

Yes, the touchscreen is not as responsive as an iPad. I have had to press things twice on occasion. Oh, the horror.

But the size is quite nice. It’s better for reading and very good for everything else. It could be faster, but it’s fine. It was, after all, $199.

Motorola won a patent suit against Apple in Germany, allowing them to ban iPhone sales (Apple will no doubt appeal).

Apple sued Samsung in Australia to prevent sales of the Galaxy Tab. Sales were briefly halted but Samsung eventually won.

Apple has several other suits against Samsung going on.

Apple won a patent suit against HTC in the US which could halt imports of HTC phones (HTC will no doubt appeal).

Samsung sued Apple in Korea, Japan and Germany, presumably in response to the various Apple lawsuits.

Google purchased Motorola, in large part for the patents, so they could get into the lawsuit act.

Microsoft, clearly feeling left out, sued Barnes and Noble over Android technology.

I’m sure I’ve missed a few, it’s hard to keep up. The entire technology patent system is officially ridiculous.

Other than lawyers, who exactly does this help?