why do the apps need to be run online? I think having a lightweight suite of MS compatable office applications on your phone all the time (even when you arent connected or dont want to pay connection fees) would be really useful.
The only apps that should be online are the ones that get their data from the internet. Otherwise Im fine with them living on the phone and in most cases would prefer it.
I think cops are actually exempt from this law in PA under certain circumstances and this is probably true in other states as well. They are allowed to record traffic stops on the dashtop cameras in their cruisers and dont have to tell you that they are doing that.
Then again, since traffic stops are public its not clear that you should ahve a reasonable expectation of privacy that should be necessary for such a law to apply in the first place. That said, under certain circumstances, the police can use wiretaps (with court order) and personal recording devices (are there restrictions on the use of a personal wire?) in places where you would have a reasonable expectation of privacy.
Exactly! I was not familiar with the law in this particular case but almost all laws that involve recording only apply when the individuals have a reasonable expectation of privacy. People in public (cops or not) do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy when they are blabbing away next to you.
this whole "oral conversation" thing might be a bit of a crock. I haven't seen the video in question but lets say that you and I are hanging out in public with a camera. your filming me, maybe we are making some kind of jackass video for you-tube. Now the camera picks up the conversation of some people walking by. Have we violated a wiretap law?
Now maybe if you were secretly trying to record a conversation that might be illegal but it seems to me that if you are doing or saying something in a public venue then you don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy. So while the law might be written in a way that is ambiguous enough for the cops to have arrested these clowns without exposing themselves to charges of wrongful arrest, it is not clear that they will be found guilty of violating any laws.
Just because you were arrested for doing something does not make it illegal to do.
Regarding your last point. The cops dont have to stop the filming they just have to make it illegal. If it was illegal you would be in trouble for admiting you did it and chances are the tapes themselves would be inadmissible as evidence against the officers being taped.
Solves their problems right there. It may be wrong and reprehensible but I wont be surprised when it is a reality.
yea, pretty widget like. Add that to the new widget stuff Jobs was talking about (movie times probably my most common use of mobile web beyond sports scores) and I think all signs point to this as the solution. Sure, it would be nice to compile up an application for the iPhone but I'm not going to write anything off until I know what the final product looks like. Widgets might be just the thing for this kind of platform and other phones might be able to use a very similar interface. Maybe even similar enough to share widgets between smartphones. Which would be a great thing for users (if not for apple).
Maybe I don't understand your setup but you are just taking pictures with your phone and transmitting them to a desktop. I cant say for sure that moving your photos around will be trival but I dont think the existence of lack of an SDK will make a difference in this.
Maybe there is more to this work flow than I understand. Do you need some kind of client application on the phone to process the photos?
if it weren't for their coverage I would have dropped verizon a long time ago. that and the fact that everyone I know is on Verizon but honestly I barely talk on the phone anymore anyway.
dont count on that. How hard would it be to have your "web" app hosted locally on the phone. you click on the icon and it brings your "web" app in a browser that doesn't have any of the normal browser controls on it. This application resides locally so you don't have to be online to use it. It can access all the features the grand parent was talking about.
I'm not going to run out and buy one of these because im just not an early adopter of these kinds of things but as far as Im concerned a full featured web browser on a phone is practically the definition of Killer App. I would love to have full access just to google and its various web applications, never mind anything else.
little known fact but in order to get quicktime on windows working apple ported a large chunk of the classic mac toolbox to windows. Many of the major components were ported. At the time I'm sure it seemed like the thing to do but its long due for a complete overhaul.
Ive got to disagree with you there. Alpha software should be feature complete and buggy as hell. When you get down to only minor bugs you should be calling that beta. Of course the optimum and it shouldn't be surprising to find major bugs in beta at all. But if your still coding up features in alpha your beta product might have more bugs than your alpha one did. Whats the point?
That said. This is my perspective from the inside. When im dealing with someone elses beta I assume it will wipe my hard drive. Don't run pre-release software unless you know what you are doing and are willing to suffer the consequences.
Watermark also implies "Hard to remove without damaging the contents of the file" It comes from watermarks on paper which you could not easily remove without destroying whatever was printed on that paper.
Don't get me wrong, there are great online options but running an 8 player halo game over the internet is not generally a "party game" so its different than what I was trying to describe on Nintendo.
Nintendo has really gone after the market segment where a group of people get together impromptu and play some simple fun game in a group setting. I'm not talking about a Lan party where everyone brings over a system but just the sort of thing that can be picked up when you have some friends over.
Im sure there are good 4 player games for the X box... Halo I assume, allows 4 players on 1 box. But it seems like there are more of these on Nintendo's consoles historically and it seems to be even more true with the Wii. Also, there seems to be a definite attempt with the Wii to make party games that are very easy for people to learn, without the ramp up required to be decent at Halo.
Im not trying to say that Nintendo is inherently better here, just that their focus is different and that is part of what is driving their current success in the family market.
You could always run windows on your new Mac Book or Mac Book pro. If the macbook has the specs you want in a windows notebook and is cheaper than the competition, you may as well buy it. Apple laptops are very good. They are light and have an excellent form factor. They have a good power to weight ratio.
Overall they make pretty good PCs if thats what you want.
I doubt they will go away without some kind of replacement. Im not sure that they will try to make a better mini but I dont think the macbook will be the low cost computer.
That said, Apple has always had top notch laptops. I suggest laptops to anyone that wants a mac if they can manage it. Maybe apple wants to play to that strength.
I suspect he was complaining about the lack of FireWire 800. Cant say I disagree.
I'm not a huge fan of the mini. I can see its use, especially as a second computer, but if I were recommending a low end mac to someone as their only machine I think I would have to go with the iMac.
Ive noticed that the other platforms don't really have multi player games that go over 2 people. I mean im sure they do but there don't seem to be as many. Nintendo has always been good at this, from party games to Mario Kart. I usually use a Nintendo console with a reasonably large group of people. Thats one of the reasons I bought a Wii.
Obviously I haven't used this device, but its possible that the phone responds with a micro vibration when you run your finger over the spot where a key is. This would require that running your finger over a button didn't click that button but a lift and tap motion would click the button.
Its quite a bit different from how the Wii works but when you pass the pointer over a button on the Wii it vibrates the remote just a bit.
I'm not sold on this or anything, but its possible that this would work quite well.
A court of law can rules over people. If you are found guilty of murder then you have commited the illegal act of murder (hopefully you actually did it, but thats another issue).
But just because you are found innocent of murder doesn't make murder legal. The wire taps are said to be illegal because the law requires a court order and it is alleged that no court order was obtained. It doesnt matter if the court order was obtained or not. IF one were to perform a wire tap without a court order, that would be an illegal act.
yea, couldn't this be kind of like a super volcano here on earth where there was a huge pool of lava and then it receded leaving an empty space. Here on earth those generally collapse into a caldera but maybe on mars it didn't and when something big hit it, it just formed a big hole. Since the crust is thin, there is nothing to eject.
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why do the apps need to be run online? I think having a lightweight suite of MS compatable office applications on your phone all the time (even when you arent connected or dont want to pay connection fees) would be really useful.
The only apps that should be online are the ones that get their data from the internet. Otherwise Im fine with them living on the phone and in most cases would prefer it.
I think cops are actually exempt from this law in PA under certain circumstances and this is probably true in other states as well. They are allowed to record traffic stops on the dashtop cameras in their cruisers and dont have to tell you that they are doing that.
Then again, since traffic stops are public its not clear that you should ahve a reasonable expectation of privacy that should be necessary for such a law to apply in the first place. That said, under certain circumstances, the police can use wiretaps (with court order) and personal recording devices (are there restrictions on the use of a personal wire?) in places where you would have a reasonable expectation of privacy.
Exactly! I was not familiar with the law in this particular case but almost all laws that involve recording only apply when the individuals have a reasonable expectation of privacy. People in public (cops or not) do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy when they are blabbing away next to you.
this whole "oral conversation" thing might be a bit of a crock. I haven't seen the video in question but lets say that you and I are hanging out in public with a camera. your filming me, maybe we are making some kind of jackass video for you-tube. Now the camera picks up the conversation of some people walking by. Have we violated a wiretap law?
Now maybe if you were secretly trying to record a conversation that might be illegal but it seems to me that if you are doing or saying something in a public venue then you don't have a reasonable expectation of privacy. So while the law might be written in a way that is ambiguous enough for the cops to have arrested these clowns without exposing themselves to charges of wrongful arrest, it is not clear that they will be found guilty of violating any laws.
Just because you were arrested for doing something does not make it illegal to do.
Regarding your last point. The cops dont have to stop the filming they just have to make it illegal. If it was illegal you would be in trouble for admiting you did it and chances are the tapes themselves would be inadmissible as evidence against the officers being taped.
Solves their problems right there. It may be wrong and reprehensible but I wont be surprised when it is a reality.
yea, pretty widget like. Add that to the new widget stuff Jobs was talking about (movie times probably my most common use of mobile web beyond sports scores) and I think all signs point to this as the solution. Sure, it would be nice to compile up an application for the iPhone but I'm not going to write anything off until I know what the final product looks like. Widgets might be just the thing for this kind of platform and other phones might be able to use a very similar interface. Maybe even similar enough to share widgets between smartphones. Which would be a great thing for users (if not for apple).
Maybe I don't understand your setup but you are just taking pictures with your phone and transmitting them to a desktop. I cant say for sure that moving your photos around will be trival but I dont think the existence of lack of an SDK will make a difference in this.
Maybe there is more to this work flow than I understand. Do you need some kind of client application on the phone to process the photos?
if it weren't for their coverage I would have dropped verizon a long time ago. that and the fact that everyone I know is on Verizon but honestly I barely talk on the phone anymore anyway.
dont count on that. How hard would it be to have your "web" app hosted locally on the phone. you click on the icon and it brings your "web" app in a browser that doesn't have any of the normal browser controls on it. This application resides locally so you don't have to be online to use it. It can access all the features the grand parent was talking about.
Sounds like an application to me.
exactly.
I'm not going to run out and buy one of these because im just not an early adopter of these kinds of things but as far as Im concerned a full featured web browser on a phone is practically the definition of Killer App. I would love to have full access just to google and its various web applications, never mind anything else.
out of curiosity, why did you move it in the first place?
little known fact but in order to get quicktime on windows working apple ported a large chunk of the classic mac toolbox to windows. Many of the major components were ported. At the time I'm sure it seemed like the thing to do but its long due for a complete overhaul.
Wow, and me without my mod points.
Are you and I the only cross platform developers on this site? I cant believe this is so hard for people to understand.
Ah, I see. So this is a religious thing. I wont bother arguing then.
Shit dude, gmail still fucks up and its been out of beta for a while. Sure everyone was using it but it was pretty beta-ish for a while there.
Ive got to disagree with you there. Alpha software should be feature complete and buggy as hell. When you get down to only minor bugs you should be calling that beta. Of course the optimum and it shouldn't be surprising to find major bugs in beta at all. But if your still coding up features in alpha your beta product might have more bugs than your alpha one did. Whats the point?
That said. This is my perspective from the inside. When im dealing with someone elses beta I assume it will wipe my hard drive. Don't run pre-release software unless you know what you are doing and are willing to suffer the consequences.
Watermark also implies "Hard to remove without damaging the contents of the file" It comes from watermarks on paper which you could not easily remove without destroying whatever was printed on that paper.
This isn't a watermark, it is certainly not DRM.
Don't get me wrong, there are great online options but running an 8 player halo game over the internet is not generally a "party game" so its different than what I was trying to describe on Nintendo.
Nintendo has really gone after the market segment where a group of people get together impromptu and play some simple fun game in a group setting. I'm not talking about a Lan party where everyone brings over a system but just the sort of thing that can be picked up when you have some friends over.
Im sure there are good 4 player games for the X box... Halo I assume, allows 4 players on 1 box. But it seems like there are more of these on Nintendo's consoles historically and it seems to be even more true with the Wii. Also, there seems to be a definite attempt with the Wii to make party games that are very easy for people to learn, without the ramp up required to be decent at Halo.
Im not trying to say that Nintendo is inherently better here, just that their focus is different and that is part of what is driving their current success in the family market.
You could always run windows on your new Mac Book or Mac Book pro. If the macbook has the specs you want in a windows notebook and is cheaper than the competition, you may as well buy it. Apple laptops are very good. They are light and have an excellent form factor. They have a good power to weight ratio.
Overall they make pretty good PCs if thats what you want.
I doubt they will go away without some kind of replacement. Im not sure that they will try to make a better mini but I dont think the macbook will be the low cost computer.
That said, Apple has always had top notch laptops. I suggest laptops to anyone that wants a mac if they can manage it. Maybe apple wants to play to that strength.
I suspect he was complaining about the lack of FireWire 800. Cant say I disagree.
I'm not a huge fan of the mini. I can see its use, especially as a second computer, but if I were recommending a low end mac to someone as their only machine I think I would have to go with the iMac.
Ive noticed that the other platforms don't really have multi player games that go over 2 people. I mean im sure they do but there don't seem to be as many. Nintendo has always been good at this, from party games to Mario Kart. I usually use a Nintendo console with a reasonably large group of people. Thats one of the reasons I bought a Wii.
Obviously I haven't used this device, but its possible that the phone responds with a micro vibration when you run your finger over the spot where a key is. This would require that running your finger over a button didn't click that button but a lift and tap motion would click the button.
Its quite a bit different from how the Wii works but when you pass the pointer over a button on the Wii it vibrates the remote just a bit.
I'm not sold on this or anything, but its possible that this would work quite well.
A court of law can rules over people. If you are found guilty of murder then you have commited the illegal act of murder (hopefully you actually did it, but thats another issue).
But just because you are found innocent of murder doesn't make murder legal. The wire taps are said to be illegal because the law requires a court order and it is alleged that no court order was obtained. It doesnt matter if the court order was obtained or not. IF one were to perform a wire tap without a court order, that would be an illegal act.
yea, couldn't this be kind of like a super volcano here on earth where there was a huge pool of lava and then it receded leaving an empty space. Here on earth those generally collapse into a caldera but maybe on mars it didn't and when something big hit it, it just formed a big hole. Since the crust is thin, there is nothing to eject.