Interesting Links for 21-04-2012
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andrewducker- Phone GPUs to overtake consoles by 2014. Phone + HDMI + Bluetooth controllers = console replacement?
- Has the ereader reached its zenith? Or is it DRM that's preventing creativity?
- IBM creates high-density, light-weight, lithium-air battery - 500 miles on one charge (in 10 years)
- GlobaLeaks - The Open Source Whistleblowing Framework
- Nobody knows what "randomness" is.
- A good review of The Cabin in the Woods, which does a nice job of pointing out its flaws (while appreciating it)
- Adam West weighs in on Christopher Nolan's final Batman chapter. Turns out he's both smart and right!
- Cameron and the civil service coup
- Context-Free Patent Art - lots of video-game patents that had me wondering what the submitters were on...
- Appropriation as art. (Sometimes it's refreshing to step into a world I know nothing about, and be boggled)
- People Who Don’t Know How to Spell “Cologne”
- THE KITTEN APPROACHETH!
- Why is the "missionary position" called that?
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Date: 2012-04-23 01:00 pm (UTC)You're right about the lock in though... it's an advantage and a disadvantage. For me it's 100% win because I know I can unlock it.
Non-technical people will not be likely to think about these issues though.
I wonder if, in the future, we will see a "rights transfer" option... I can see monopolies people wanting to stop lock in.
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Date: 2012-04-23 01:32 pm (UTC)And yeah, I expect you'll get rights over transfers at some point. Possibly even when the publishers insist on it, to stop them being squished flat by Amazon.
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Date: 2012-04-23 03:01 pm (UTC)Does that > 20 year timescale put the problem in the same category of problem as "don't buy vinyl/cd/cassette/blu-ray because in 40 years you won't own a device capable of playing it"?
I think I was a late adopter for CD and did not have a CD player until 1994. I don't have anything which can now play any music I bought before 1994. I honestly can't remember if I own a VCR. I think I do not so I don't have anything which can now play any film or TV program I bought before about 1998.
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Date: 2012-04-23 03:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-23 04:42 pm (UTC)You are right. On the other hand, if over a ten year period, everyone but luddites moved from their primitive ebook collection in favour of a system where nanobots etched the words into your eyeballs while exuding a relaxing smell of bacon and gradually it became as difficult to get a working kindle reader as it was to get a stylus to play 78s... well, I'm not sure people would care.
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Date: 2012-04-23 04:47 pm (UTC)Sorry, what were you saying?
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Date: 2012-04-23 04:49 pm (UTC)