Matt Ulman |
... he’s explaining how he built this city on cocaine lasers
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I don’t want to be melodramatic about this, but it could seriously be the most important idea of the last few decades. It’s bigger in scope than the Move to Amend plan, and it’ll take time to see which is more achievable.
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. – Henry David Thoreau
A great summary of recent history.
I blame Critical Mass.
Some people say that the growth of bikelanes over the last few years has sparked the backlash, but it’s hard to argue that those aren’t a net positive.
I commute to work by bike, and have for nearly a decade. I’ll admit to not stopping at every light, but for the last six years I’ve been fortunate that there aren’t many lights between home and work.
I’ve been noticing lately (because I’ve been trying to pay attention) that when there is interaction w/ a pedestrian, either on the commute or on the weekend, it nearly always ends with them apologizing to me for jaywalking in front of me. I’m no saint, but this city’s filled with people who aren’t following every law they’re supposed to follow.
Thank you for protecting innovation with your lawyer army and Scrooge-McDuck-sized vault of gold.
I shudder to think of the world we might live in: a world where we mortals have discovered a way to highlight text on a page but haven’t taken the unobvious next step of adjusting that selection. Thank you, Geniuses of Redmond, for discovering this strange and nearly mystical technology.
I’ll include your other innovations below for posterity, although my puny mind struggles to understand the nonobvious, substantial, and significant nature of these inventions. In fact, I may go mad from the sudden expansion of my perspective.
Whatever you do, gentle reader, look away before reading about the way they’ve completely redefined the way we ‘annotate’ things:
The Microsoft-created features protected by the patents infringed by the Nook and Nook Color tablet are core to the user experience. For example, the patents we asserted today protect innovations that:
• Give people easy ways to navigate through information provided by their device apps via a separate control window with tabs;
• Enable display of a webpage’s content before the background image is received, allowing users to interact with the page faster;
• Allow apps to superimpose download status on top of the downloading content;
• Permit users to easily select text in a document and adjust that selection; and
• Provide users the ability to annotate text without changing the underlying document.
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Right now, the two top stories on Yahoo! news are:
I feel like any commentary on my part is redundant….
I’m not going to claim to have invented this, but more and more people are starting to talk about it.
They’ll get what they deserve, those nose-spiting cheeseheads.
Frankly, I’m not sure how wonkish the debate about this article is, but it’s both hilarious and disturbing. The fact that our press, the people who are supposed to keep us safe from abuse, can’t even understand first-year concepts makes me fear for the future. This from a source that isn’t supposed to be biased and claims some knowledge of the subject (Business and Economics Editor). From the mainstream source of The Letter from Birmingham Jail.
And the best part is that she continues to be wrong in the comments of this story. Very, very wrong. Treating savings like it only counts if you have a passbook, not as an economic concept that can be positive or negative… that’s what the average person on the street would do, but it’s no way to lead a technical debate.
