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Justin Hopkins

Buzzblog: Microsoft code contains the phrase 'big boobs' ... Yes, really - 0 views

www.networkworld.com/...ns-phrase-big-boobs-yes-really

microsoft code linux

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  • Justin Hopkins on 20 Jul 12
     
    This is why we can't have nice things...
Scott Peterson

What to Expect (And What We Want) From Windows Blue - 0 views

www.wired.com/...what-to-expect-in-windows-blue

Professional Development

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  • Scott Peterson on 22 Mar 13
     
    What to expected and what some tech writers would like to see in "Windows Blue," the next release of Windows scheduled for this Summer of Fall. Notable it Microsoft is trying to move to yearly updates of Windows and is enhancing the touchscreen and tiled "Metro" interface. It's not clear if "Blue: will be a point update such as Windows 8.1 or if it will be considered a new version altogether.
adrienne_mobius

The Myth and the Millennialism of "Disruptive Innovation" - 0 views

hackeducation.com/...disruptive-innovation

catastrophism disruptive innovation

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  • adrienne_mobius on 31 May 13
     
    "The death of the music industry. The death of newspapers. The death of print. The death of Hollywood. The death of books. The death of the Web. The death of RSS. The death of Microsoft. All predicted to be killed - suddenly or gradually or in the library with a candlestick - by some sort of "disruptive innovation."
Megan Durham

Microsoft's Plan to Bring About the Era of Gesture Control | MIT Technology Review - 0 views

www.technologyreview.com/...out-the-era-of-gesture-control

Professional Development software libraries library technology

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  • Megan Durham on 25 Oct 12
     
    Motion control: Startup company GestSure uses Kinect for Windows to allow surgeons to look through medical images without having to touch unsterile equipment. While most of the headlines about Microsoft this fall will concern its new operating system, Windows 8, and its new Surface tablet, the company is also working hard on a long-term effort to reinvent the way we interact with existing computers. *I knew my Just Dance skills would pay off!
adrienne_mobius

BIBLIOFUTURE: Your friendly logger says, "Buy the real thing - real books printed on re... - 0 views

bibliofuture.blogspot.com/...ndly-logger-says-buy-real.html

ebooks

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  • adrienne_mobius on 14 Jun 12
     
    In 2000 Microsoft made a series of predictions about ebooks over the following 20 years. The prediction for 2012 includes an ad campaign by the logging industry that says, "Buy the real thing - real books printed on real paper.
anonymous

How LibreOffice Writer Tops MS Word: 12 Features - Datamation - 0 views

www.datamation.com/...ops-ms-word-12-features-1.html

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      anonymous on 20 Apr 12
       
      This. I hate that headers and footers in Word are all or nothing.
  • these advantages not only suggest a very different design philosophy from Word, but also demonstrate that, from the perspective of an expert user, Writer is the superior tool.
  • when you examine LibreOffice and MS Office without assumptions, the comparison changes dramatically. That's especially true when looking at the word processors, LibreOffice's Writer and MS Office's Word.
  • ...1 more annotation...
  • Since headers and footers are also attached to page style, you can also use different header and footer styles automatically.
Donna Bacon

New Partnership of Barnes & Noble and Microsoft Will Promote Digital Textbooks - chroni... - 5 views

www.readability.com/read

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  • Donna Bacon on 01 May 12
     
    College students still don't want e-textbooks!  Wonder if this partnership will help students change their minds.....
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  • anonymous on 02 May 12
     
    Are you serious? They LOVE e-textbooks... you can pirate them instead of spending $160 on a dead tree...
  • Donna Bacon on 02 May 12
     
    Did you read the article???? It says e-textbooks are just not taking off....they seem to like the dead trees....
  • Sharla Lair on 02 May 12
     
    While getting my MLIS, I was often given the option of buying the textbook or the e-textbook. The highest priority for me was $$$$$. eTextbooks often cost more than the el cheapos in the bookstore, AND you don't even get to keep the e version. I was usually given access to the etextbook for only 4 months. To remedy this issue all together I got my books through MOBIUS! That way I didn't have to pay anything and I didn't have to store the book after the semester was over. For students to adopt e-texts, the model has to be changed. Make them pay a flat fee with their tuition. Call it a library fee or information fee. Then give them access to the required texts while they are enrolled in a course at no additional cost. Make the texts collaborative so digital notes can be taken perhaps Diigo style so they can be shared and commented on. There is a cool tool called Citelighter http://www.citelighter.com/. Citelighter is a virtual highlighter that automates the research and paper writing process. It allows the user to find and capture unique facts online, automatically generate citations, and write better quality papers in less time. They just launched a pro version in a partnership with Cengage. Citelighter Pro users are able to add to their experience with materials from Cengage Learning. If you make it affordable, accessible, and social, college students will dig it!
  • anonymous on 02 May 12
     
    @donna I skimmed it. They are cheaper in some cases than the book new - while buying a used book ten selling it back is cheaper in the long run. Also currently ebooks don't have any really compelling features over the paper ones. Still, I'm saying that the point of view that they "aren't taking off" just means the companies selling them haven't figured out how to make money off of them. I know from talking to friends that ebooks are fairly popular, but when people pirate them these companies can't track them. On the whole I agree with Sharla - if they made the product better and keep it affordable they will see sales. If I were going to college today I'd pirate every book I need. No way am I carrying all those heavy things, but I can't afford to pay for them. It's like with music and movies. I quit pirating that stuff because Netflix/Hulu/Spotify got good and cheap. If the ebooks improve, people will pay for the same reason - it's easier.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 02 May 12
     
    I think the reason why the print versions are preferred is here: ""Most e-textbooks are slightly glorified PDF's of the print version, although that's changing," [a National College Stores Association rep] said. "Digital e-books sell for about 60 percent of the cost of a new printed copy. Since students can go to their college store and rent a print copy for between 33 and 55 percent of the cost of a new book, the e-book really needs to have more functionality to make the higher price worth their while."" Add to that what Sharla pointed out-- you can't even keep the ebooks because you're really just leasing them-- and it's no wonder nobody's interested. It's a shame, too, because I'd love to be able to do things like textbook exercises in an ebook on a tablet, or make notes in the electronic text to export and read later.
Justin Hopkins

(2) Product Launches: What are some disastrous failures on a demo day or public product... - 2 views

www.quora.com/...y-or-public-product-launch-day

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  • When Microsoft introduced the dictation feature in windows vista they demoed it on stage and it went terribly wrong.
  • Who could forget bill gates and the very public blue screen of death. I believe this was demoing the USB plug and play feature of windows 98, aptly renamed to plug and pray for a period of time :)
anonymous

"Defensive Patent License" created to protect innovators from trolls | Ars Technica - 1 views

arstechnica.com/...protect-innovators-from-trolls

patent license

shared by anonymous on 18 Jun 12 - No Cached
  • Any company that commits to the terms of the Defensive Patent License would have to pledge all of the patents it owns to this league of do-gooders. Any other member of the league would gain a free license to any other member’s patents, and no one in the league would be allowed to launch offensive patent lawsuits against other members of the league. Doing so would be grounds for the member to have its license revoked.
  • Regardless of the likelihood of success, it’s an intriguing idea. Even if it has no impact on the IBMs and Microsofts of the world, it might make trouble for patent trolls. If a patent has been de-weaponized, there’s no reason for a troll to buy it, Schultz said. “The trolls won’t go after the DPL people because they already have an irrevocable license, forever, for free,” he said. “We think this will decrease the weapon supply of trolls.”
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