My reasons for buying my WP7 device was to check out the Xbox Live integration specifically and general curiosity about the OS. (Disclosure: I am an Xbox geek and phone/handheld/mobile geek, so the merge could not be passed up without investigation.
I was impressed with device and rated it high, right out of the box. -calls were good, even on at&t network. -easy to text -easy to connect to personal AND work email -I find the Office apps easy to use if viewing apps and making minor changes. I would not recommend writing your business proposal or powerpoint slides, duh. -bing search works fine -speech recognition worked well for me on text, email, and searches. somewhat less so on the maps
I rate the same device higher now, with the type of quality apps available that make the phone better/cooler/more fun for me personally. -itunes connector -xbox companion which lets me control my xbox 360. -the best casual games I have ever seen on a handheld device
I still wish the map application was better with directions and some of the speech recognition. "Union City" not "King City" come on!
All in all I am looking forward to new diverse hardware coming out for the WP7 OS.
Your unfounded and just plain wrong personal attacks on me, don't offer any futher support of your position. In addition, your statements concerning TiVo's "extra value" and "proprietary" hardware seem to ignore the key point that they did in fact advance the technology past the point where it was previously. They made it easy for the mass population to digitally record broadcasting. That is innovation much in the same vein as Apple has done with MP3 players.
Your attempts to divide the entire population into me the ignorant layman and you+world of knowledgable experts in the field are humorous. I applaud your low./id and I am sure that you are just waiting to unleash your full knowledge of patent law plus technology history in a vitriolic chastisement of my audacity to assume to have an opinon contrary to your own. TiVo agrees with me to the tune of around 3/4 of a BILLION $$$$.
We can agree to disagree on the subject or you can flame me again to get the last word in. I'm having fun with you now.
Your assesment of "easy to replicate" is unsound. It takes massive amounts of engineering and execution to get past the concept stage.
I agree patents were never meant to enfoce a monopoly on such things, but they are meant to protect a new player (TiVo) who enters the market with a new idea from being unfairly steamrolled out of the market by larger established competitiors (AT&T, Dish, Echostar, Verizon).
Give it a rest. Some parts of the patent system work. Some need to be revamped and fixed. Some need to be removed all together. Let's not throw out the baby with the bath water.
In this day and age of overly broad patents and frivolous lawsuits, this case decision is actually justified.
TiVo was THE first to develop and market the DVR way back when it you would "TiVo" your favorite shows instead of using that piece of modern archeology called a VCR. Soon after TiVo's initial success, the knock-off competitiors really diminished the TiVo's success.
I even like that they get a bump in cash payments when AT&T gets more subscribers.
Now if some company would come along and make it easy for me to off load my recordings to my personal harddisk we would have fully replaced the VCRs capabilities. I hate losing my recordings if my STB goes out and simple storage expansion would be nice.
I know that reading TFA flys in the face of/. reason. However, links to Twitter feeds, while verified as "subtel", are not really great story references.
Here is the English translation "EYE From today cellular phones # # Chile must be sold unlocked. If stock is locked need to unlock your company at no cost"
It's a different type of "plot". In MW3 or in squad level combat the "story" is not in prose format. It is a progression of situational action that the user must be aware of in order to "read" the plot. Plus, squad level combat is "multi-player" and requires fluid reaction to squad-mates decisions, good and bad.
Recent SOPA decisions highlight the lack of technical knowlege in the legislative body of congress, yes. Also, they show how powerful lobbying efforts can negatively impact the legislative process.
However, no evidence is offered in TFA that supports the major assumption that "American Corporate Software can no longer be trusted for anything".
It *may* be a dirty trick, but you would hope that anyone running for National Political Office let alone the POTUS would have the domain at least reserved. Especially, if their name isn't Jim Smith or Jane Jones. Come on! how many "Newt Gingrich" people are out there? Ron Paul is pretty generic and his site is there. Romney and Obama have probably had their sites since WAY before 2008.
We certainly agree that strict compliance is not helpful in exploratory research and subsequent discovery. I hope the expectation is NOT to strictly control experimentation, holding it to the "letter of the funding grant", but to at least establish a target goal or outcome to aim for.
I am by no means an expert on funding research grants. This next question I'm asking because I don't know the answer. Is there an entity (university, company, government dept, individual, or other group) that simply funds open-ended, non-specific research projects without an expectation of financial return? (Outside of the medical field, where curing cancer or an allowing an leg amputee to walk again can be a reward in itself.)
Every scientist, tinker, chemist, and engineer who "accidently" found something great had an expressed purpose (at least in their own minds) and intention to the experiments/research they were conducting.
While working over Easter break in his home lab on his malaria cure he made his discovery "that aniline could be partly transformed into a crude mixture which when extracted with alcohol produced a substance with an intense purple colour".
soon we will all have a personal flying intelligent companion that acts as like a superpowered smartphone. Such a device will including a vast array of sophisticated sensors, monitors, and jammers that can be utilized for a "stealth" mode.
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My reasons for buying my WP7 device was to check out the Xbox Live integration specifically and general curiosity about the OS. (Disclosure: I am an Xbox geek and phone/handheld/mobile geek, so the merge could not be passed up without investigation.
I was impressed with device and rated it high, right out of the box.
-calls were good, even on at&t network.
-easy to text
-easy to connect to personal AND work email
-I find the Office apps easy to use if viewing apps and making minor changes. I would not recommend writing your business proposal or powerpoint slides, duh.
-bing search works fine
-speech recognition worked well for me on text, email, and searches. somewhat less so on the maps
I rate the same device higher now, with the type of quality apps available that make the phone better/cooler/more fun for me personally.
-itunes connector
-xbox companion which lets me control my xbox 360.
-the best casual games I have ever seen on a handheld device
I still wish the map application was better with directions and some of the speech recognition. "Union City" not "King City" come on!
All in all I am looking forward to new diverse hardware coming out for the WP7 OS.
Give this man a cee-gar!
It's a push of dogfood (IE) vs pull of my personal info (G+).
One of the best games in my childhood and experienced on the C64.
Again, I like how you stick to the flaming and avoid any useful information to support your arguements.
Your unfounded and just plain wrong personal attacks on me, don't offer any futher support of your position. In addition, your statements concerning TiVo's "extra value" and "proprietary" hardware seem to ignore the key point that they did in fact advance the technology past the point where it was previously. They made it easy for the mass population to digitally record broadcasting. That is innovation much in the same vein as Apple has done with MP3 players.
Your attempts to divide the entire population into me the ignorant layman and you+world of knowledgable experts in the field are humorous. I applaud your low ./id and I am sure that you are just waiting to unleash your full knowledge of patent law plus technology history in a vitriolic chastisement of my audacity to assume to have an opinon contrary to your own. TiVo agrees with me to the tune of around 3/4 of a BILLION $$$$.
We can agree to disagree on the subject or you can flame me again to get the last word in. I'm having fun with you now.
Sorry. I disagree that all patent law is unjust.
Your assesment of "easy to replicate" is unsound. It takes massive amounts of engineering and execution to get past the concept stage.
I agree patents were never meant to enfoce a monopoly on such things, but they are meant to protect a new player (TiVo) who enters the market with a new idea from being unfairly steamrolled out of the market by larger established competitiors (AT&T, Dish, Echostar, Verizon).
Give it a rest. Some parts of the patent system work. Some need to be revamped and fixed. Some need to be removed all together. Let's not throw out the baby with the bath water.
In this day and age of overly broad patents and frivolous lawsuits, this case decision is actually justified.
TiVo was THE first to develop and market the DVR way back when it you would "TiVo" your favorite shows instead of using that piece of modern archeology called a VCR. Soon after TiVo's initial success, the knock-off competitiors really diminished the TiVo's success.
I even like that they get a bump in cash payments when AT&T gets more subscribers.
Now if some company would come along and make it easy for me to off load my recordings to my personal harddisk we would have fully replaced the VCRs capabilities. I hate losing my recordings if my STB goes out and simple storage expansion would be nice.
I know that reading TFA flys in the face of /. reason. However, links to Twitter feeds, while verified as "subtel", are not really great story references.
Here is the English translation
"EYE From today cellular phones # # Chile must be sold unlocked. If stock is locked need to unlock your company at no cost"
Sadly, this is the best link I could find with a basic internet search.
http://www.cellular-news.com/story/52450.php
Any other sources out there on this topic?
It's a different type of "plot". In MW3 or in squad level combat the "story" is not in prose format. It is a progression of situational action that the user must be aware of in order to "read" the plot. Plus, squad level combat is "multi-player" and requires fluid reaction to squad-mates decisions, good and bad.
Recent SOPA decisions highlight the lack of technical knowlege in the legislative body of congress, yes. Also, they show how powerful lobbying efforts can negatively impact the legislative process.
However, no evidence is offered in TFA that supports the major assumption that "American Corporate Software can no longer be trusted for anything".
It's lordpwnalot. Surely, you can trust him.
"If the materials were slightly less toxic, it might even be a project that kids could do at home."
It better be like Play-doh.
It *may* be a dirty trick, but you would hope that anyone running for National Political Office let alone the POTUS would have the domain at least reserved. Especially, if their name isn't Jim Smith or Jane Jones. Come on! how many "Newt Gingrich" people are out there? Ron Paul is pretty generic and his site is there. Romney and Obama have probably had their sites since WAY before 2008.
We certainly agree that strict compliance is not helpful in exploratory research and subsequent discovery. I hope the expectation is NOT to strictly control experimentation, holding it to the "letter of the funding grant", but to at least establish a target goal or outcome to aim for.
I am by no means an expert on funding research grants. This next question I'm asking because I don't know the answer. Is there an entity (university, company, government dept, individual, or other group) that simply funds open-ended, non-specific research projects without an expectation of financial return? (Outside of the medical field, where curing cancer or an allowing an leg amputee to walk again can be a reward in itself.)
Every scientist, tinker, chemist, and engineer who "accidently" found something great had an expressed purpose (at least in their own minds) and intention to the experiments/research they were conducting.
For example http://science.discovery.com/brink/top-ten/accidental-inventions/inventions-03.html
" 18-year-old chemist William Perkin wanted to cure malaria; instead his scientific endeavors changed the face of fashion forever and, oh yeah, helped fight cancer. "
While working over Easter break in his home lab on his malaria cure he made his discovery "that aniline could be partly transformed into a crude mixture which when extracted with alcohol produced a substance with an intense purple colour".
Or maybe you prefer the guy who left the lab a mess when he went on vacation.
http://science.discovery.com/brink/top-ten/accidental-inventions/inventions-01.html
Does that apply to the often used "metric shit-ton"? So, the correct usage would actually be shit-tonne?
As you noted, but chose to ignore your own advice. If you have to point out a joke...it's not a good enough joke.
soon we will all have a personal flying intelligent companion that acts as like a superpowered smartphone. Such a device will including a vast array of sophisticated sensors, monitors, and jammers that can be utilized for a "stealth" mode.
Give this man a cee-gar!
That would only serve to distract me further....
Then it's obviously everyone else's fault and you are completely absolved from any blame for your own decisions whatsoever.
1. Twin 20mm Frontal Assault cannons with Eye Tracking aim.
2. Bumper mounted wreckage shovel.
would you?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARPA_Grand_Challenge
This contest dates back to 2004.
Google practice your motto here. Do no evil.