mikecane

There are bound to be overstock netbooks that never sold available on ebay. But if you're asking does anyone make them anymore, No. Tablets killed them.

Then you haven't looked very closely at YouTube. You can pay to watch movies there now too.

http://www.youtube.com/user/movies

>>>Other people didn't want to watch Rubicon

Just want to say I appreciate that mention, having been a fan of that series.

>>>For example, TV shows have taken a large chunk of business away from the motion picture industry since TV was invented

Major studios own TV networks today. It's all the same bank account. If your money doesn't go into the pocket labeled "Movie," you're putting it in the one called "TV."

Sorry, I didn't see those. I count on the site to flag for duplicates. Apparently it can miss some.

Weather balloons, bomb squad. Reminded me of World War II:

Japanese Balloon Bomb attack on the US http://www.bookmice.net/darkchilde/japan/balloon.html

Also MeFi: http://www.metafilter.com/60948/WWII-Japanese-Balloon-Bombs

My advice is to go back to school. And not because you are being pressured to but because it will broaden you in ways you can't anticipate. You'll be in an environment that is unpredictable and stimulating and you don't know where future inspiration will come from because of it.

Jobs found inspiration after dropping out but -- and this is the important bit -- while still on the campus:

>>>“The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn’t interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting,” he said. Among them was a calligraphy class that appealed to him after he saw posters on campus that were beautifully drawn. “I learned about serif and sans serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can’t capture, and I found it fascinating.”

-- from the Isaacson bio

Listen, you can always make money later. But you are young only once and if you pass up the chance for serendipity when you're young, you'll regret it later in life because by then you'll understand you've trapped yourself in a bubble for years.

I hope this helps.

"The wide blue sky was shredded by the dark criss-crossing telegraph lines..."

Long Copy ads were especially successful in the days of print magazines and mail order.

Here are classic examples: http://robertrosenthal.typepad.com/.a/6a00d8341c511c53ef0120...

http://www.perrymarshall.com/images/micro_tv_breakthrough.jp...

http://copyquickstart.com/call/sugarman/homework/home_comput...

Sorry that the last one has just one of two-paged spread. All I got via Google.

EDIT to add: Oh, look at this, from the JS of JS&A fame:

http://succeedinyourpajamas.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/J...

Because the Crazy Ones was a salute to those people. This new ad sounds like Apple saluting itself.

But it sold lots of Samsung phones.

When I saw the ad on TV, I thought it was egregiously self-congratulatory. It should have never escaped the WWDC. It's something to show in-house to rally the troops. Out in the world, it's just self-flattery and has a smug tone.

From the Isaacson bio of Steve Jobs:

>>>Two other occasional visitors were high school students Steven Jobs and Stephen Wozniak, who hung out at SAIL [Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory], with an older friend, Allen Baum, who was working at the laboratory during the fall of 1970. Jobs later said that the “vibrations” he felt at SAIL would stay with him his entire life. The bewitched Wozniak rode his bike up to the laboratory from his home in Los Altos, and he later said that his experiences there contributed to his hunger for his own computer.

SAIL was one of the core places of the computing revolution, from which The Mother of All Demos by Doug Engelbart was spawned. That demo happened in 1968, when Jobs was twelve or thirteen, and influenced everything that came afterwards in computing.

Change that name. http://www.newsnow.co.uk/h/

I've used the real NewsNow for ages.

Given the remarkable intel that can be gathered, I'm surprised the NSA/CIA/FBI aren't giving away smartphones to targets as anonymous presents or under the pretense of winning a contest.

Surveillance isn't cool. You know what's cool? Privacy.

Interesting that now North Korea wants to open talks with the U.S., according to a news tweet tonight (June 15th):

https://twitter.com/NewsBreaker/status/346074606270038017

Strictly coincidence?

If China grabs him, they will put him in North Korea.

Does this account for what I saw in a store? The Galaxy Note 8.0's clock widget didn't have the same time as the clock in the upper right corner. Or is this a widget issue?

I'm sure the same questions were in the air in 1930s Germany. (Don't cite Godwin to me.)

Not everyone has to "go" somewhere. Prison release programs have people wear ankle bracelets. For some, house arrest will suffice with a GPS shackle. It will likely depend on your Threat Score. For instance, do you have a cache of weapons or is your "threat" mainly about ideas? People who can actively engage in force will likely have a higher score than someone whose "threat" is persuasion. (Although to a regime like China, the Dalai Lama is perhaps a higher threat than someone with a cache of guns. So your "threat mileage" might vary.)

Or something is very wrong with a government that would perceive so many as threats -- or create such "threats."

>>>There are many dissatisfied people on either side of the political spectrum.

Which is the entire point of the American Constitution. It was created by political malcontents for political malcontents.

Having suffered under the brutality of the King, the Colonists drafted a document that would prevent such abuses in the future by enshrining it in law. That millions and millions of people who would "get along" under any regime (see North Korea today) benefited is strictly a collateral effect.

That no one seems to understand the original point of it all is why we're going down this greased slide to hell today. And hell it will be.

On the other side, Alvin C. York. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_C._York#World_War_I

This is why they want everything secret. Perversions of justice and insane prosecutions such as this. Because open coverage reveals their multiple levels of failure.

What's next? Being charged with "Interference with Lawful Surveillance" if you encrypt files, use TOR?

Yes. I saw that mentioned at Geekwire. Before I did, I tried to read the TOS before signing in, but it kept looping me back to the signin page. I wound up trying a sample script with one panel, then split. I'd never submit anything to it.

When your company is a lynchpin of information sharing, you'll get a knock on the door from the gov't -- not just in America, anywhere. That's why this matters.

J.C. Penney. Nuff said.

Pretty. But if the goal is to make the text larger, I can just do CTL-+ in Firefox (which I seem to use a lot these days, but not at HN) to make the text bigger without inflicting it on everyone else.

>>>Does the average person buying a laptop from Bestbuy really care that much about screen resolution?

I said desktop. People sit further away from laptop screens and at a totally different angle. Win 8 emphasizes touch, and all the AIO touchscreen desktop screens I've seen are too grainy to look at compared to tablet screens. Even if the pixel count is the same as a laptop, the pixels, obviously, are a hell of a lot larger.