If CompanyX's software was RMS 'Free', company y wouldn't even need to reverse engineer it. They could just use it. Of course the thing to sell in that scenario is not the software, but the implementation. Lets say that CompanyX makes a free and open OS to run on mobile entertainment devices. We'll call it Robot. Company X makes specialized hardware to run Robot and sells it. Company Y takes Robot and installs it on hardware they've manufactured and competes directly with Compay X. Consumers decide that Company X's implementation isn't that great and buy the other one. So what? Company X should have made a better implementation. Maybe Company X has more opportunities to make a profit up its sleeve from Robot. Company Y has to stay on it's game though because if someone else has a better idea for Robot, they could make a killer product that takes consumers from Company Y. The end result is increased competition and it's a win for the consumer.
Incidentally, Company X seems to be doing just fine.
I work in an industry where we have historically bought US$3k+ touch screen devices to be the basis of kiosks. To our clients, the ipad is a miracle. It completely surpasses the hardware they were used to at a fraction of the price. From my perspective the ipad is every bit the piece of killer hardware the hype says it is and more.
Should you rely on your government to protect you from hostile space aliens or should you also wear a tin foil hat? Sure, it's easier to not wear the hat, but does it really hurt you? The worst outcome is your are safe from their mind control rays due to the actions of the government while wearing tinfoil. However, should the government fail to protect you, or worse, is in cahoots with the aliens, you have taken steps to protect yourself.
Granted, the hat isn't going to protect you from the alien's death ray but it's a good stopgap. Chances are you won't be a complacent drone when the aliens deploy the death ray and you stand a better chance of escaping to your underground bunker.
In summation: Build a network of fortified underground tunnels. Stockpile food weapons and ammunition. Run windows firewall. Wear your tinfoil!
i have analyzed windows running on an isolated machine. While it's seemingly random crashes seem harmless enough, if this were to happen on the right system under the right circumstances, the results could be devastating! My conclusion is windows was engineered to be installed at norad and thwart a nuclear counterstrike by presenting inaccurate progress bars representing the ETA of incoming soviet warheads.
I'm usually pretty forgiving in code reviews. If get_your_hands_up_hooker() is well commented and there is good use of whitespace, it can probably slide.
That's good. I was wondering how someone would got access to my ubuntu box. It is little more than a web server and ssh. Sounds like you need to give the attacker an account first. Shared hosting: vulnerable. Single user box at home: probably not a problem.
It's fire and forget. You don't have the risk of getting sucked into a conversation. It doesn't require that the recieving party be present at the time of sending. It's usually faster to receive than a voicemail.
For example: while snowboarding, if separated, my friends and I usually text each other to say what area/bar we are going to. Service is spotty on the mountain, but sooner or later they go into a spot where the message shows up. Vm doesn't always come through in these conditions, and who wants to pull off hats and goggles when it only takes 3 or four words to get the message across.
I would think Internet based communications are replacing SMS, but even in my example SMS seems to work better as all you need is a gsm signal. Often the Internet doesn't work well when you have a really weak edge signal.
not only that but i distinctly recall being a young male and the effects of high testosterone levels.
To my experience, high testosterone drives one to seek out mergers. Offers are never rejected. Males under the influence of testosterone generally show a reluctance to withdraw. I think this study is flawed.
I know this is a stunt and all. i don't want to be overly pedantic.However...
i think pigeons are trained to go to one location. ex: if you want to send me data by pigeon, i have to raise pigeons, then give you some of my flock. Those pigeons will come back to me when you let them go.
It simply isn't practical to keep a bunch of pigeons for every destination you would want to go. Even with his slow-ass connection, he can chose to send his data to youtube, or to vimeo, or to some ftp server. It's great that he's got some youtube pigeons that can carry his data to their servers, but what if he wanted to also send the data to an online backup service? he'd really have to factor in the time it takes to have the backup service send him 1 or more of their pigeons before he could affix the storage to them and send them on their way. Probably the worst part about this pigeon system would be everyone interested in consuming his video would need to send their pigeons by truck to the youtube headquarters. There youtube employees would load them with data and release them back to their home. I sort of think even the slow internet connection works better. Plus, packet loss would really be a bitch with this scheme.
Wondering what exactly was preventing him from playing with his left hand, i read TFA. As far as i can tell, he finds it impossible to play with his left hand because there was never a checkbox for him to use to signify he was a lefty. He never explains what was so hard about using it left handed, or why his right hand couldn't work.
I imagined one such scenario would be a game that requires you to write words and letters with your right hand while manipulating the dpad with your left. That does sound challenging. I checked out this video http://www.examiner.com/video-game-in-chicago/base10-the-dsi-and-lefties-left-out and the gameplay seems to consist of drawing horizontal and vertical lines through big squares. I fail to see how this couldn't be done left handed.
To be honest, that might be an interesting variant of poker. People could buy a more cards, but the money goes into the pot. I'd hope i was dealt a good hand in my original 5 and watch those suckers chasing flushes and straights as they franticly bought more cards. In fact that sounds a lot like texas hold-em. Either way it comes down to a battle of wills. Blackjack is a more common game that allows you to pay more to get more cards. You can play multiple hands if you want, though that really doesn't increase your odds, just the payout potential, or you can double down.
as far as the only winner being the house goes, that's exactly the way it is. You have a chance to win, but you probably won't. The house, however, stands to come out ahead every day. People still like gambling, and they aren't even getting anything at all. not even the images of a fake little farm.
Farmville isn't really a zero sum competition either. The funds of the loser aren't given to the winner (unless you see the users as the losers and zynga as the winner). I don't think you can steal someone's farm. It's more of a pissing contenst as far as i can tell. people want a big farm like people want to hop up their cars. Both seem like a silly thing to spend a lot of money on, but people do. Why begrudge them the chance to pursue their goals (lame as they may be)?
I've noticed that almost everywhere i keep seeing ads for McDonald's. They are on websites that i go to. They are on tv. They are on the radio. I think i heard one on Pandora. They are even printed on billboards on the interstate through nebraska when i drive through there. That's pretty creepy that they KNOW i'm coming through nebraska and manage to print a billboard just for me.
What i don't get is i don't even like McDonald's. I hardly ever go there, yet they keep showing me all these ads. weird.
That is a good point. I hadn't thought of situations where recognizing one object would be useful. Still it seems like even that use might be better served by an RFID solution.
It's actually an ad for a new reality show from the makers of 16 and pregnant. You won't be able to tear yourself away from the trainwreck that unfolds as tech companies make ever more desperate attempts to take attention away from apple.
The surface is camera based. It's built to look at the shape or even color of whatever is put on it. The advices use a capacitive screen. The Apis don't eem give you any information other than a distilled point where it thinks there is a touch. There really isn't the concept of an occupied area of the screen.
So this is different, but I don't understand why someone would want to do this. The real estate of the devices are small. It's not at all like a surface where placing physical objects on a table is a normal thing to do. Plus te only way I can think to do this would be to arrange little dots of conductive material underneath the objects. That would create a recognizable pattern, but it would eat up a ton of the devices finite touches. You could only put 2 things down really.
there is a feasible way to create such a system though. there are materials that exhibit the same electrical properties as skin, and these can be used as a stylus on the idevices' screens.
If you could arange little dot patterns of these on the underside of these objects, you would create a recognizable pattern of touches that would indicate orientation as well as position. You'd use up a number of touches though you'd need at least 3 dots and the ipad can only detect 11 touches. the ipod less. you couldn't really place a lot of objects on the screen. I guess the phone doesn't have much real estate for object placing anyway.
I agree it's not going to flood the market, but that pricing is the developers license cost. Mono touch allows you to distribute the runtime with your app. I think this will be the same. End users wouldn't have to know an app used mono. They might just notice some Apps were 20 Meg larger than they should be.
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If CompanyX's software was RMS 'Free', company y wouldn't even need to reverse engineer it. They could just use it. Of course the thing to sell in that scenario is not the software, but the implementation. Lets say that CompanyX makes a free and open OS to run on mobile entertainment devices. We'll call it Robot. Company X makes specialized hardware to run Robot and sells it. Company Y takes Robot and installs it on hardware they've manufactured and competes directly with Compay X. Consumers decide that Company X's implementation isn't that great and buy the other one. So what? Company X should have made a better implementation. Maybe Company X has more opportunities to make a profit up its sleeve from Robot. Company Y has to stay on it's game though because if someone else has a better idea for Robot, they could make a killer product that takes consumers from Company Y. The end result is increased competition and it's a win for the consumer.
Incidentally, Company X seems to be doing just fine.
oh dang! so quick to judge kevin bacon, but his acting was such that you confused the dead one for a live one!
I work in an industry where we have historically bought US$3k+ touch screen devices to be the basis of kiosks. To our clients, the ipad is a miracle. It completely surpasses the hardware they were used to at a fraction of the price. From my perspective the ipad is every bit the piece of killer hardware the hype says it is and more.
Should you rely on your government to protect you from hostile space aliens or should you also wear a tin foil hat? Sure, it's easier to not wear the hat, but does it really hurt you? The worst outcome is your are safe from their mind control rays due to the actions of the government while wearing tinfoil. However, should the government fail to protect you, or worse, is in cahoots with the aliens, you have taken steps to protect yourself.
Granted, the hat isn't going to protect you from the alien's death ray but it's a good stopgap. Chances are you won't be a complacent drone when the aliens deploy the death ray and you stand a better chance of escaping to your underground bunker.
In summation: Build a network of fortified underground tunnels. Stockpile food weapons and ammunition. Run windows firewall. Wear your tinfoil!
i have analyzed windows running on an isolated machine. While it's seemingly random crashes seem harmless enough, if this were to happen on the right system under the right circumstances, the results could be devastating! My conclusion is windows was engineered to be installed at norad and thwart a nuclear counterstrike by presenting inaccurate progress bars representing the ETA of incoming soviet warheads.
My strategy was to bring robots into the game
Maybe he doesn't realize that the rest of the wold perceives that as the most japanese of strategies?
HA HA!
I'm usually pretty forgiving in code reviews. If get_your_hands_up_hooker() is well commented and there is good use of whitespace, it can probably slide.
That's good. I was wondering how someone would got access to my ubuntu box. It is little more than a web server and ssh. Sounds like you need to give the attacker an account first. Shared hosting: vulnerable. Single user box at home: probably not a problem.
It's fire and forget. You don't have the risk of getting sucked into a conversation. It doesn't require that the recieving party be present at the time of sending. It's usually faster to receive than a voicemail.
For example: while snowboarding, if separated, my friends and I usually text each other to say what area/bar we are going to. Service is spotty on the mountain, but sooner or later they go into a spot where the message shows up. Vm doesn't always come through in these conditions, and who wants to pull off hats and goggles when it only takes 3 or four words to get the message across.
I would think Internet based communications are replacing SMS, but even in my example SMS seems to work better as all you need is a gsm signal. Often the Internet doesn't work well when you have a really weak edge signal.
Nice! It always seemed like prospective mergers held the potential for unprecedented growth!
not only that but i distinctly recall being a young male and the effects of high testosterone levels.
To my experience, high testosterone drives one to seek out mergers. Offers are never rejected. Males under the influence of testosterone generally show a reluctance to withdraw. I think this study is flawed.
I know this is a stunt and all. i don't want to be overly pedantic.However...
i think pigeons are trained to go to one location. ex: if you want to send me data by pigeon, i have to raise pigeons, then give you some of my flock. Those pigeons will come back to me when you let them go.
It simply isn't practical to keep a bunch of pigeons for every destination you would want to go. Even with his slow-ass connection, he can chose to send his data to youtube, or to vimeo, or to some ftp server. It's great that he's got some youtube pigeons that can carry his data to their servers, but what if he wanted to also send the data to an online backup service? he'd really have to factor in the time it takes to have the backup service send him 1 or more of their pigeons before he could affix the storage to them and send them on their way. Probably the worst part about this pigeon system would be everyone interested in consuming his video would need to send their pigeons by truck to the youtube headquarters. There youtube employees would load them with data and release them back to their home. I sort of think even the slow internet connection works better. Plus, packet loss would really be a bitch with this scheme.
Wondering what exactly was preventing him from playing with his left hand, i read TFA. As far as i can tell, he finds it impossible to play with his left hand because there was never a checkbox for him to use to signify he was a lefty. He never explains what was so hard about using it left handed, or why his right hand couldn't work.
I imagined one such scenario would be a game that requires you to write words and letters with your right hand while manipulating the dpad with your left. That does sound challenging. I checked out this video http://www.examiner.com/video-game-in-chicago/base10-the-dsi-and-lefties-left-out and the gameplay seems to consist of drawing horizontal and vertical lines through big squares. I fail to see how this couldn't be done left handed.
i couldn't watch the entire video.
To be honest, that might be an interesting variant of poker. People could buy a more cards, but the money goes into the pot. I'd hope i was dealt a good hand in my original 5 and watch those suckers chasing flushes and straights as they franticly bought more cards. In fact that sounds a lot like texas hold-em. Either way it comes down to a battle of wills. Blackjack is a more common game that allows you to pay more to get more cards. You can play multiple hands if you want, though that really doesn't increase your odds, just the payout potential, or you can double down.
as far as the only winner being the house goes, that's exactly the way it is. You have a chance to win, but you probably won't. The house, however, stands to come out ahead every day. People still like gambling, and they aren't even getting anything at all. not even the images of a fake little farm.
Farmville isn't really a zero sum competition either. The funds of the loser aren't given to the winner (unless you see the users as the losers and zynga as the winner). I don't think you can steal someone's farm. It's more of a pissing contenst as far as i can tell. people want a big farm like people want to hop up their cars. Both seem like a silly thing to spend a lot of money on, but people do. Why begrudge them the chance to pursue their goals (lame as they may be)?
Android will become the most popular OS by 2014, or it will not.
I've noticed that almost everywhere i keep seeing ads for McDonald's. They are on websites that i go to. They are on tv. They are on the radio. I think i heard one on Pandora. They are even printed on billboards on the interstate through nebraska when i drive through there. That's pretty creepy that they KNOW i'm coming through nebraska and manage to print a billboard just for me.
What i don't get is i don't even like McDonald's. I hardly ever go there, yet they keep showing me all these ads. weird.
That is a good point. I hadn't thought of situations where recognizing one object would be useful. Still it seems like even that use might be better served by an RFID solution.
You can have anything you want as long as it's a black box.
It's actually an ad for a new reality show from the makers of 16 and pregnant. You won't be able to tear yourself away from the trainwreck that unfolds as tech companies make ever more desperate attempts to take attention away from apple.
I figure you need at least 4 to distinguish different pieces and orientation. Well, you pretty much max out at 2 objects then.
The surface is camera based. It's built to look at the shape or even color of whatever is put on it. The advices use a capacitive screen. The Apis don't eem give you any information other than a distilled point where it thinks there is a touch. There really isn't the concept of an occupied area of the screen.
So this is different, but I don't understand why someone would want to do this. The real estate of the devices are small. It's not at all like a surface where placing physical objects on a table is a normal thing to do. Plus te only way I can think to do this would be to arrange little dots of conductive material underneath the objects. That would create a recognizable pattern, but it would eat up a ton of the devices finite touches. You could only put 2 things down really.
there is a feasible way to create such a system though. there are materials that exhibit the same electrical properties as skin, and these can be used as a stylus on the idevices' screens.
If you could arange little dot patterns of these on the underside of these objects, you would create a recognizable pattern of touches that would indicate orientation as well as position. You'd use up a number of touches though you'd need at least 3 dots and the ipad can only detect 11 touches. the ipod less. you couldn't really place a lot of objects on the screen. I guess the phone doesn't have much real estate for object placing anyway.
I agree it's not going to flood the market, but that pricing is the developers license cost. Mono touch allows you to distribute the runtime with your app. I think this will be the same. End users wouldn't have to know an app used mono. They might just notice some Apps were 20 Meg larger than they should be.
We need bad laws to make better lawyers.