Sure! I set the bar at technological innovation. I don't claim there is no new stuff between, I just came up with some examples.
For example, they keep going to smaller processing scale on microchips all the time by using better and better lithographic techniques. Each time they hit a limit, and find a new way to do it that breaks that limit, it might be considered groundbreaking; however, just going to the next logical step is not.
If this is accurate, excellent!
It proves my point. It's not groundbreaking, it's a rehash of their platform from 86!
I am not saying I don't like innovation, nor normal development, I just don't like it being "hail mary'd" into some religious event each time a new model is released.
Have you ever used a Palm pda or a iPaq?
There really isn't much new except swiping from side to side and up/down and to be honest, they stole that from the movies.
They are good at polishing and selling though, and tapping into that religious feel that makes for a great fanbase.
Agreed!
Marketing is extreme, but I wouldn't call it groundbreaking either. They just do what every large brand does.
The main point is however, that linear extrapolating development, making stuff smaller, faster and embedding it more and more is just how development has been done the last 30 years. It is not groundbreaking.
The vaccuum tube was groundbreaking.
The transistor was groundbreaking.
The silicone chip was groundbreaking.
The ipod/ipad/iphone was a knockoff on the iPaq or to be nice, a linear extrapolation adding modern technology to a already existing idea/platform known as the PDA.
Why can't we have a website dedicated to invalidating patents?
Crowdsourcing prior-art info preferably public so, as to invalidate the patent without moving domain over to a new patent.
It can't be that hard. Ofcource, if the patent is not yet granted it is easier as then you just send the info along to the examiners who in turn can force the filer to prove it isn't prior art. Once it's granted however we need a way to prove it is prior art as the onus is on us. (google the word, I hate it too...)
Finally someone daring to say that the dominant technology might not be the better one.
Sure, it can create weapons grade stock for the military, and due to this focus we have more "experience with it", but that's about it.
Experience is gained through research, but that was canned to "protect" the public by not spreading doubt about dominant tech.
Time to dig out those experimental plans and do some real work for a change.
I for once would like to see a low-pressure, intrinsically safe - self moderating, freeze-plug protected reactor, that I know doesn't need 7 days of continous cooling to avoid a meltdown after I turn it off!
That's like having to douse your baseboard heater for a week to avoid it spontaniously setting fire to the house because you turned it OFF.
I guess I will have to look for an alternative. It's sad, but MS taking over skype is unacceptable.
I never accepted LiveID and all that crap as it isn't how I want to use computers. They are supposed to be a tool for specific tasks you want to do, not your entire life and the person you are.
Why does everyone seem to want to tie everything together and identify you uniquely for even the simplest search-task, and why should there be links between a PM account and a friggin blog? I mean, 1 password is easier to remember, but also easier to hack!
There are a lot of users out there who will be devastated if their accounts were hacked. Politically, personally and financially as well as work-wise. Their life can simply be stolen. Soon some moron will find it wise to tie this in with your bank account too, then you will be really screwed.
I need an alternative. Something unrelated to any government, social website and buisiness morons.
I have not been able to find a single reference to any cases where this has been the case.
There have been headlines about it but all the storys seem to be newspapers wanting to sell papers, thus headlines don't necessarily have much to do with the actual cases.
Some links to proper journalism and actual expert statements would be nice.
And no, flipping soil and harvesting corn for 2-3 generations doesn't make one an expert.
Nonono...
The GMO seeds are sterile to prevent spreading, to avoid them "taking over" in the wild.
This is a very natural safety technique and I would be very concerned if they did not use it.
The sterile GMO seeds do not flower so can not cross-pollinate with neighbouring fields. Further more, if they make people sterile it is due to compounds created and not directly from the self propagation limits. This undesired effect could also happen with normal breeding and cross-pollination techniques and as such have no bearing on a case at all.
I agree that it can appear unfair to be forced to buy new seed every planting, but this is where free market should come in and force pricings on non-heirloom seeds to drop. Unless ofcource the martked deems the increased yelds, reduced infections, increased shelf-life and better taste to be compensating for this.
The phone is bought full price!
No locking, no subscription, no sponsoring, no string attached.
I never buy phones affiliated with carriers.
The only thing special about my phone is that is was purchased in Norway.
Model: E10i
Firmware: 2.1-update1
Kernel: 2.6.29
Build: 2.1.1.A.0.6
On my X10-mini I continously get "Roller Rev 99" and "Edge" two games I neither don't want or like.
They can be removed from apps menu but every refresh or minor update reinstalls them.
They are ofcource both trial versions and if you clean out their datastore to get rid of em, your trial licence is gone too, so all you can do is watch the horrible dialogs telling you to purchase fullversion and lock up before allowing you to exit again. The word crapware comes to mind...
You have to be pretty corrupt and greedy as a manufacturer/vendor to bundle this crap.
Everyone who has ever claimed to be psychic should thus be sued for not predicting the earthquakes.
Further more they are responsible for Fukushima and even for me missing my bus last thursday.
They should also make it illegal to be wrong.
That will fix all problems, even those relating to politics as then no decisions made in "the publics best interest" will be wrong and life will be perfect.
Really, everything will be peachy! Unless I am wrong ofcource...
Actually, it is more of a insight/confirmation that Apple is playing on religion.
People who are weary/sceptic of religions will naturally resist Apples promotions as they identify them by the same signals as other religions.
The feeling a sceptic gets when he is bombarded with Apple adverts is akin to the feeling from other religious groups making him fight vigorously for his free will. Nothing wrong with that is there? There are a lot of paralells too, maby even more to a sect or cult than a "normal" religion. I speak ofcource of the classical "lack of user control is a good thing" and "Apple knows best" ideology. Note also that whenever a religion acknowledges a new thing it's always the prime forcus for a while. Just like Apple when doing slight alterations to a existing principle; it's always the greatest thing since toast.
I remember my Compaq iPaq with fondness. I could install whatever I wanted on it, and it worked with standard peripherals. Looking at an iPad I see a enlarged screen, a new gui and all my options removed.
The sensors are actually very good.
The connectors used to interface with the sensors are however the cheapest you can get that has a vibration-rating.
It's sad, but there are connectors that will last the life of a car, but they will most likely never be found in one due to cost. Most car-connectors aren't even properly dust and mosture-proofed.
Don't you think listening to it should be a first step?
They may take whatever time they like on the rest, but I would urge them to start by giving it a good listen.
Then they can submit a initial assumption based on this alone, and just make a point of it being preliminary.
After all, we are dying (bad choice of word? sorry) to know.
Agreed. Silly as they come.
If you have a proper IDE with context-lookups, multi file handling and backtracking as well as version control you don't need several vim windows, web lookups and several external cross-reference utilitys taking up screen-realestate; virtual or real.
Debugging can also be a part of it too, even if cross-compiling. Less ned for that VM, if you can run it on a real remote target.
Tragic story so far, but atleast it shows the viability of solid-state memory.
On a sidenote: If there is only 2 hours of voice recording, why will it take weeks to listen to it?
If apple supplies an API for/with in-app purchasing, then I shouldn't be infringing for using it. Apple should.
Then again, there were shopping apps before, and they were not infringing on in-app purchasing patents, but existed before them. Doesn't that void the patent?
I get internet *only* via ethernet in the wall. I can select between 10/10 and 100/100 for $57/$150 a month respectively.
There are no caps and no services attached, not even a firewall or silly nat. They focus on being a ISP. Oh and my ping to the backbone in Norway is around 0.8 ms... It's not as cheap as the 10/2 deals around but then again, it's scaled to be used, not milked.
You should try my banks online payment system!
- First, you need your personal id number, which anyone can get from open databases.
- Next you need a keycode generator keychain thingy that doesn't even have a pincode and is easily stolen.
- Thirdly you need your personal password which in my bank is the same as the phone pin for dial-your-account making it dtmf snoopable. Also, using it on your phone opens up a world of spying.
Now, if I don't bring my key-gen around with me, I have no way of using my card online, not even my Visa or MasterCard!
If I do bring it, I still need a browser that supports their specific version of Java, and it doesn't work on multiple versions of Chrome and Firefox...
There's a line between safety and usability. Besides, we are talking money here. It's traceable. Follow the money and you find the crooks. I'd rather have an automated system dial me up and ask if my "large" or "reapeated" transaction is really my own, than needing a tonn of false security systems that waste my time.
Oh and I hereby claim that "An automated system to contact, in any viable way, an accounts holder to verify/approve or otherwise safeguard a transaction, or transaction possibly out of the normal, repeated or otherwise, to be an idea I came up with on my own and post online for the benefit of everyone, but to the direct proffit of no singular institusion or person. It is public domain unless already patented by some idiot, in which case the patent is obvious and should be nulled."
Arduino is good for DIY tinkerers that don't want to make their own boards. It's also good for testing out principles just like other development-boards like Atmels own STK- series of boards. But... that is also where it stops, and we do see people thinking they can cobble together some arduino boards and hock em off as a complete product.
The ones most pissed off at arduino is probably those doing proper development that will end up with embedding a mcu in a finished product. Meeting questions and grief from customers who have been playing with arduinos and don't understand that a real board actually needs layout work too. Things take time and time is money.
The same people will also not understand that the abstraction-layer provided by the arduino software suites are there to make it accessible for the uninitiated and non-trained people that wish to do microcontroller-hobbies. They are not as you say ment for realtime work and other complex tasks.
After all, arduino boards, asside from having support electronics like power-supply and a connector or such, is mostly nothing more than breakout boards for Atmel AVR chips and other IC's for interfacing with aforementioned Atmel chips.
Arduino has it's place, and in that place it's pricerange is good. Compare it to what it costs for production of a board with all parts of your products embedded and it becomes quite expensive. A MCU+Accellerometer+SD card slot to make a transport-tress logger for example would require 3 arduino boards and take up quite some room. The same solution on a proper board would be hardly bigger than a stamp, and the cost of the components would be based on the purchase price pr 1000 chips, not retail singles.
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Sure! I set the bar at technological innovation. I don't claim there is no new stuff between, I just came up with some examples.
For example, they keep going to smaller processing scale on microchips all the time by using better and better lithographic techniques. Each time they hit a limit, and find a new way to do it that breaks that limit, it might be considered groundbreaking; however, just going to the next logical step is not.
If this is accurate, excellent!
It proves my point. It's not groundbreaking, it's a rehash of their platform from 86!
I am not saying I don't like innovation, nor normal development, I just don't like it being "hail mary'd" into some religious event each time a new model is released.
Have you ever used a Palm pda or a iPaq?
There really isn't much new except swiping from side to side and up/down and to be honest, they stole that from the movies.
They are good at polishing and selling though, and tapping into that religious feel that makes for a great fanbase.
Agreed!
Marketing is extreme, but I wouldn't call it groundbreaking either. They just do what every large brand does.
The main point is however, that linear extrapolating development, making stuff smaller, faster and embedding it more and more is just how development has been done the last 30 years. It is not groundbreaking.
The vaccuum tube was groundbreaking.
The transistor was groundbreaking.
The silicone chip was groundbreaking.
The ipod/ipad/iphone was a knockoff on the iPaq or to be nice, a linear extrapolation adding modern technology to a already existing idea/platform known as the PDA.
Why can't we have a website dedicated to invalidating patents?
Crowdsourcing prior-art info preferably public so, as to invalidate the patent without moving domain over to a new patent.
It can't be that hard. Ofcource, if the patent is not yet granted it is easier as then you just send the info along to the examiners who in turn can force the filer to prove it isn't prior art. Once it's granted however we need a way to prove it is prior art as the onus is on us. (google the word, I hate it too...)
Finally someone daring to say that the dominant technology might not be the better one.
Sure, it can create weapons grade stock for the military, and due to this focus we have more "experience with it", but that's about it.
Experience is gained through research, but that was canned to "protect" the public by not spreading doubt about dominant tech.
Time to dig out those experimental plans and do some real work for a change.
I for once would like to see a low-pressure, intrinsically safe - self moderating, freeze-plug protected reactor, that I know doesn't need 7 days of continous cooling to avoid a meltdown after I turn it off!
That's like having to douse your baseboard heater for a week to avoid it spontaniously setting fire to the house because you turned it OFF.
I guess I will have to look for an alternative. It's sad, but MS taking over skype is unacceptable. I never accepted LiveID and all that crap as it isn't how I want to use computers. They are supposed to be a tool for specific tasks you want to do, not your entire life and the person you are. Why does everyone seem to want to tie everything together and identify you uniquely for even the simplest search-task, and why should there be links between a PM account and a friggin blog? I mean, 1 password is easier to remember, but also easier to hack! There are a lot of users out there who will be devastated if their accounts were hacked. Politically, personally and financially as well as work-wise. Their life can simply be stolen. Soon some moron will find it wise to tie this in with your bank account too, then you will be really screwed. I need an alternative. Something unrelated to any government, social website and buisiness morons.
I have not been able to find a single reference to any cases where this has been the case.
There have been headlines about it but all the storys seem to be newspapers wanting to sell papers, thus headlines don't necessarily have much to do with the actual cases.
Some links to proper journalism and actual expert statements would be nice.
And no, flipping soil and harvesting corn for 2-3 generations doesn't make one an expert.
Nonono...
The GMO seeds are sterile to prevent spreading, to avoid them "taking over" in the wild.
This is a very natural safety technique and I would be very concerned if they did not use it.
The sterile GMO seeds do not flower so can not cross-pollinate with neighbouring fields. Further more, if they make people sterile it is due to compounds created and not directly from the self propagation limits. This undesired effect could also happen with normal breeding and cross-pollination techniques and as such have no bearing on a case at all.
I agree that it can appear unfair to be forced to buy new seed every planting, but this is where free market should come in and force pricings on non-heirloom seeds to drop. Unless ofcource the martked deems the increased yelds, reduced infections, increased shelf-life and better taste to be compensating for this.
Could the sim-card be making the phone download the apps?
Phone was purchased unaffiliated, and subscription supplied by work.
The phone is bought full price!
No locking, no subscription, no sponsoring, no string attached.
I never buy phones affiliated with carriers.
The only thing special about my phone is that is was purchased in Norway.
Model: E10i
Firmware: 2.1-update1
Kernel: 2.6.29
Build: 2.1.1.A.0.6
It seems to be in the image.
They even reappear from the nightly/weekly software checks.
Oh and I am ashamed of "neither don't want or like". I'll admit to that before anyone points it out.
I should have said "neither want nor like".
On my X10-mini I continously get "Roller Rev 99" and "Edge" two games I neither don't want or like.
They can be removed from apps menu but every refresh or minor update reinstalls them.
They are ofcource both trial versions and if you clean out their datastore to get rid of em, your trial licence is gone too, so all you can do is watch the horrible dialogs telling you to purchase fullversion and lock up before allowing you to exit again. The word crapware comes to mind...
You have to be pretty corrupt and greedy as a manufacturer/vendor to bundle this crap.
Everyone who has ever claimed to be psychic should thus be sued for not predicting the earthquakes.
Further more they are responsible for Fukushima and even for me missing my bus last thursday.
They should also make it illegal to be wrong.
That will fix all problems, even those relating to politics as then no decisions made in "the publics best interest" will be wrong and life will be perfect.
Really, everything will be peachy! Unless I am wrong ofcource...
People who are weary/sceptic of religions will naturally resist Apples promotions as they identify them by the same signals as other religions.
The feeling a sceptic gets when he is bombarded with Apple adverts is akin to the feeling from other religious groups making him fight vigorously for his free will. Nothing wrong with that is there?
There are a lot of paralells too, maby even more to a sect or cult than a "normal" religion. I speak ofcource of the classical "lack of user control is a good thing" and "Apple knows best" ideology. Note also that whenever a religion acknowledges a new thing it's always the prime forcus for a while. Just like Apple when doing slight alterations to a existing principle; it's always the greatest thing since toast.
I remember my Compaq iPaq with fondness. I could install whatever I wanted on it, and it worked with standard peripherals. Looking at an iPad I see a enlarged screen, a new gui and all my options removed.
Oh well. Guess I'm a doubter then.
The sensors are actually very good.
The connectors used to interface with the sensors are however the cheapest you can get that has a vibration-rating.
It's sad, but there are connectors that will last the life of a car, but they will most likely never be found in one due to cost. Most car-connectors aren't even properly dust and mosture-proofed.
They already took a copy.
But I do agree, a working-copy is ofcource a first step, after a copy of the original just in case...
Don't you think listening to it should be a first step?
They may take whatever time they like on the rest, but I would urge them to start by giving it a good listen.
Then they can submit a initial assumption based on this alone, and just make a point of it being preliminary.
After all, we are dying (bad choice of word? sorry) to know.
Agreed. Silly as they come.
If you have a proper IDE with context-lookups, multi file handling and backtracking as well as version control you don't need several vim windows, web lookups and several external cross-reference utilitys taking up screen-realestate; virtual or real.
Debugging can also be a part of it too, even if cross-compiling. Less ned for that VM, if you can run it on a real remote target.
Tragic story so far, but atleast it shows the viability of solid-state memory. On a sidenote: If there is only 2 hours of voice recording, why will it take weeks to listen to it?
If apple supplies an API for/with in-app purchasing, then I shouldn't be infringing for using it. Apple should. Then again, there were shopping apps before, and they were not infringing on in-app purchasing patents, but existed before them. Doesn't that void the patent?
Agreed! LOL. Good joke though, but I would also close my account the second it was known to be final.
I get internet *only* via ethernet in the wall. I can select between 10/10 and 100/100 for $57/$150 a month respectively. There are no caps and no services attached, not even a firewall or silly nat. They focus on being a ISP. Oh and my ping to the backbone in Norway is around 0.8 ms... It's not as cheap as the 10/2 deals around but then again, it's scaled to be used, not milked.
Paypal has never let me down.
You should try my banks online payment system!
- First, you need your personal id number, which anyone can get from open databases.
- Next you need a keycode generator keychain thingy that doesn't even have a pincode and is easily stolen.
- Thirdly you need your personal password which in my bank is the same as the phone pin for dial-your-account making it dtmf snoopable. Also, using it on your phone opens up a world of spying.
Now, if I don't bring my key-gen around with me, I have no way of using my card online, not even my Visa or MasterCard!
If I do bring it, I still need a browser that supports their specific version of Java, and it doesn't work on multiple versions of Chrome and Firefox...
There's a line between safety and usability. Besides, we are talking money here. It's traceable. Follow the money and you find the crooks. I'd rather have an automated system dial me up and ask if my "large" or "reapeated" transaction is really my own, than needing a tonn of false security systems that waste my time.
Oh and I hereby claim that "An automated system to contact, in any viable way, an accounts holder to verify/approve or otherwise safeguard a transaction, or transaction possibly out of the normal, repeated or otherwise, to be an idea I came up with on my own and post online for the benefit of everyone, but to the direct proffit of no singular institusion or person. It is public domain unless already patented by some idiot, in which case the patent is obvious and should be nulled."
The ones most pissed off at arduino is probably those doing proper development that will end up with embedding a mcu in a finished product. Meeting questions and grief from customers who have been playing with arduinos and don't understand that a real board actually needs layout work too. Things take time and time is money.
The same people will also not understand that the abstraction-layer provided by the arduino software suites are there to make it accessible for the uninitiated and non-trained people that wish to do microcontroller-hobbies. They are not as you say ment for realtime work and other complex tasks.
After all, arduino boards, asside from having support electronics like power-supply and a connector or such, is mostly nothing more than breakout boards for Atmel AVR chips and other IC's for interfacing with aforementioned Atmel chips.
Arduino has it's place, and in that place it's pricerange is good. Compare it to what it costs for production of a board with all parts of your products embedded and it becomes quite expensive. A MCU+Accellerometer+SD card slot to make a transport-tress logger for example would require 3 arduino boards and take up quite some room. The same solution on a proper board would be hardly bigger than a stamp, and the cost of the components would be based on the purchase price pr 1000 chips, not retail singles.