This is a fantastic example of a company embracing technology (or more generally newer forms of business) and not holding on to the "old way" of doing business.
The fact that their printed volumes account for a negligible amount of their revenue shows that this wasn't even a spur of the moment decision, they saw the writing on the wall a long time ago and planned accordingly.
I think since Ford is sending the upgrade USB sticks directly to customers it would now be quite easy for someone with malicious intent to send out fake "upgrade" USB sticks to unsuspecting Ford owners. I'm not sure how dangerous it would be from a safety, ram-car-into-tree, point of view but certainly they would have access to any GPS data.
I like this simply for the content on the page, not necessarily the actual project (tho it's cool too). It's snarky, self-deprecating, and dryly funny.
I think it's interesting that the idea of deleting an account on a web service is "incomprehensible" (a bit out of context, but still relevant). It's kind of funny how reliant we've become on a few companies and services.
while you may not support the company and it's methods, the point they are trying to make is more honorable: making the dmca more complicated is pointless.
I was thinking of the NYT articles. Even if I don't have to pay to read them, the principle is the same. I shouldn't have to register on a site to read the content. I can understand registering to interact (comment, etc) but not to simply access.
This is a really good article when considering use cases for your users. Sometimes classifying it under 'stupid user syndrome' just isn't good enough, you have to understand that they are not unintelligent, they just don't grasp the same domain knowledge as we do.
Did I miss something, or why are these in your head tag? Why not put them in the body tag so they don't load until after the browser has rendered the page?
I think you're simply showing your lack of exposure to new technologies. As 1053r noted, there are tons and tons of new things coming out all the time. Yes, it seems that with the advent of fast, cheap hardware most platforms perform generally the same, but new software is continuing to amaze.
Your wife may use the same computer, but i guarantee you she does not use it in the same way. Does she use localhost? Has she ever run a ./configure? It's like saying my owning a football puts me in the same league as Brett Favre.
i did one the runs on osx a couple years ago. might be broken now, haven't run it in a while.
https://github.com/helloandre/cam2ascii