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When I saw the new price point, I actually briefly considered buying a $139 model so I could loan the whole Kindle (and my whole electronic library) to a friend...

Then again, I bought a paperback book yesterday specifically because I knew I would be reading it and passing it on. This really is the biggest sore point for e-readers.

I completely agree with you.

Unfortunately, sometimes when I'm checking in at US airline kiosks, a "helpful" attendant will come over and start operating the kiosk for me. I can't stand that -- it's the worst of both solutions.

For example, when I'm using the kiosk myself, I can take my time browsing the seats that are available and pick the best one. When the attendant is "helping," I feel like I can't explore my options.

"Yeah, I know we just made the thing you're doing illegal, but no worries, we're not going to enforce it." doesn't reassure me much. Read the economist article posted yesterday about all the people in prison for pretty similar stuff.

> random renters through more wild party's [sic]

Really? Can you back that up. Data please.

It's an anecdote, not data (but still more than you've got): In my four months being a random renter I've thrown exactly one party. It was a brunch, and two people came. Not wild at all.

I've been to a number of parties that were much "wilder." All thrown by regular tenants. The wildest was attended by the building's doorman.

Another anecdote: I moved to the city in late March. Since then, I've been in five sublets while I looked for a suitable permanent place to live. (Moving in tomorrow!)

One of those sublets would have been legal under this new law.

The first was a vacation rental business, very well run by the owner of the building. I stayed there two months, so it wouldn't fall under this rule, but I was the exception: most of his business would.

Another was a young professional who rented out her tiny one-bedroom in the East Village to help pay for her vacation.

A third was a friend of mine who was out of the country for a few weeks. A win-win situation, I paid her rent and got a place to live.

The fourth was a room in a shared loft with three roommates. The guy renting the room was a photographer who spent the two weeks in Haiti documenting the recovery. The rent money helped fund his trip.

The fifth, the one I'm in right now, was another friend's place. She moved out at the first of the month (due to the availability of her new apartment and her new roommates' schedules) but was obligated to pay the rent through the end of the month. Again, win-win. I help with her rent and have a place to live.

Tomorrow, I move into an apartment of my own. There is a specific no-subletting clause in the contract, and I'll honor that. But I wouldn't have made it moving to the city if this law had been in effect four months ago.

I haven't downvoted you, but would like to point out that there is a very large middle ground for disagreement without taking the absurd position of "you wouldn't mind a constant rotation of complete strangers..." Your argument is just as lazy.

"The InNova patent was awarded to inventor and mathematician Robert Uomini nearly 15 years ago when Internet email was still in its formative stages."

I understand the internet had a big bump in popularity in '95, but wasn't the "formative stage" of email much earlier?

One day in the not-too-distant future, we'll see a headline here "Netflix stops mailing discs to US customers, goes streaming-only." It's (mostly? ideally?) all about the most efficient and user-accepted way to move the bits around.

(a) Gold: shiny, heavy, and generally useless. Valuable only if someone else agrees it is valuable. (b) Guns, ammo, food, and fuel: Useful. Inherently valuable and good for barter.

I'm glad Gdgt ran this full quote. Engadget unfortunately dropped the first part of it from their liveblog (not really a problem, they're typing and submitting pretty quickly) but then ran an article that started "Apple's not really ready to say it's sorry about the iPhone 4 antenna design..."

Don't you have to borrow stock to sell it short? Can you do that for 6 years?

I don't think I ever had a me@domain.edu address in school. There was always an vestigial environment name in the middle (@eos.ncsu.edu and @titan.sfasu.edu)

No, just markup. Much easier to parse...

Having lived for a semester at Vista Way, I think Disney World's College Program is as close to a living in a company town as you can get nowadays in the US. They completely control two municipalities, and provide the jobs, the bank, the housing, the food, the fire department, the EMS, the phone company, and the transportation services.

The Foxconn facilities in China might be a contender as well, but I don't know enough to say.

I'd say they need not be "morally net positive," but I'd prefer they didn't engage in practices that are morally detrimental.

Or, you don't have to sponsor a tree-planting program, but please don't irresponsibly dispose of all that used motor oil you're collecting.

This would be flagged off-topic on Stack Overflow and migrated to Server Fault ;)

No, using Flash means the author might not know how to do rich interfaces with Javascript/CSS/HTML or that he prefers to do rich interfaces for the web in Flash. Or it could mean something else.

Since the iPhone app is written in Objective C, which isn't an option on the web, his choice of Flash for the demo really doesn't tell us anything about how good the app might be, does it?

It doesn't redirect on the search page, but the results pages are located at https://encrypted.google.com.

He edited the article to add Rails, Merb, and Webby at the very bottom. Keep scrolling...

I like the visual representation of what the service does, but the images are small. The result images are essentially your product, but they're cropped too much.

I understand these use cases, but I'm not sure the attachments related to these things are already in my email frequently enough for this to be useful.

My voicemail is on my cellphone or in Google voice (where it already has a humorous machine translation that might be good enough.) If I want to take a picture of a product, the closest camera is in my phone and there's already an Amazon app for that.

Perhaps you could de-emphasize the "attachment" part, which makes me think of files and serious emailing, and emphasize "send a picture" which I can do quickly from my phone. I know it's the same thing, but the different wordings send my brain in different directions.

The "until we all have retina displays and 4 megapixel digital cameras." from sesqu's summary is what makes it still relevant. Or newly relevant?

I'd put it at the top:

Email an attachment to go@mail2brain.com and a human will turn it into something useful:

Frame it as a feature :)

I got some good responses when I asked a similar question on SO a long time ago:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6371/how-do-you-manage-da...

Bottom line: script all your changes to the DB schema, and check the scripts into version control. If you need mock data, write a script that loads it into the DB, and check that into version control.

You're right that the point of the cloud computing conversation should be ownership of data.

However, the point of this article is little more than "Use Tonido."

Just tried it on an image where the whiteboard was poorly cropped -- lots of junk around the edges of the pic. The drawing itself was cleaned pretty well, but the extra stuff was distractingly multi-colored.

It would be nice if it could detect the edges of the whiteboard and crop. As Goosey mentioned, perspective correction would be nice as well.

Love the idea as an email service, and look forward to seeing what comes next.

a) One app, basically a dedicated RSS reader for a client's blog. b) Free. c) My client has promoted it on a weekly radio show. d) I was paid by the client for developing the app. I think I made about $1500. I consider that pretty good for subsidized Objective-C training.

The app has had a few thousand downloads, so it's one of the more visible things I've been able to work on and is rewarding in that way. (most things I do at my day job are for a handful of users at most.)

So they built a more-mind-bogglingly powerful computer to compute the question. You really should read the book(s) to find out what happens next...

Considering a primary feature is uploading to 37signals' Campfire, not many?

Agreed. Since "May God have mercy on his soul" is pretty much boilerplate language for executions, we should look at the difference in what Shurtleff says.

When he writes, "May God grant him the mercy he denied his victims," the emphasis is on Garner's crime.

The "May God grant him the mercy..." part is more likely a cultural artifact than religious extremism.