I normally try to avoid making such a post, but I could fit most of that into my Columbia OmniHeat jacket from a year ago. I've seen others with various styles of jackets that could fit just as much. I just feel underwhelmed by the product.
Maybe if he had a couple more layers of stuff and filled the entire screen with it when laying it on a table, it would have been more impressive.
Can't speak for iPhone and its non-removable battery, but I had a little "happening" while hiking that ended up with my Galaxy S (Android) phone submerged for several minutes. Didn't remove the battery until nearly 8 hours later, and 24 hours later I thought for sure it was dead. But I just needed to be more patient -- nearly a year later I tried it on a lark and it was fine. (the downside being I now had two identical phones on the same carrier and a hole in my pocket, hehe)
That said, I doubt your Android phone will be that delicate.
On the subject of TFA, I wouldn't mind a phone I could take with me diving at shallower depths (or better yet, boring deco stops)...but due to the limits of capacative touchscreens, I'd need something with physical buttons...
Cool. The giggling kid really gives it away then. The "star" is pretty convincing...especially the facial expressions. (and sorry for the whole Buzz Killington schtik, hehe...)
Everyone thinks it's fake, except I had a brother who was exactly that flavor of mentally ill. Though none of us were giggling like the other kid...it's pretty miserable to be around. He'd just do stuff like that for hours on end, even into the night sometimes.
I'm leaning toward skepticism of skepticism on this one. Is there any confirmation that it's fake?
They're also involved with roughly estimating natural resources in a region. Remember that story awhile back where it was discovered Afghanistan is rich with various resources? That was the USGS' doing.
It's not something we like to talk about, but there's a tactical advantage to knowing these things...
amen to that, he contributed more to driving the technology industry than just about anyone else.
Statements like this make me no longer care about the inappropriate timing of the comment I'm about to make, but I'll make it anyway: I sure hope the latest news means that objectivity will return to how devices are rated, how interfaces are criticized, how Apple is viewed by the media, and how computing will progress from here on out. From the fall of AOL to the rise of iComputing, we had a 12 year golden age where walled gardens were derided, people owned their own devices, and the landscape of the internet formed more or less naturally.
That said, I will miss how he made it okay to latch onto a particular fashion and stick to it. That's one of the few things we'd agree on.
Because it's a better idea for yet another government entity to put off its financial obligations for future generations to pay for?
Regardless of who lobbied for this, or which unpopular president passed it, it should be patently obvious what the root of this problem is. (hint: It was mentioned in the summary)
It's available on google code still. It's a little bit of a pain to build...I had to combine the HermitAndroid and HermitLibrary src into the Tricorder project, and then delete said libraries. (but I build with CLI, eclipse may end up being easy peasy)
svn checkout http://moonblink.googlecode.com/svn/trunk moonblink-read-only
As I'm not an anonymous coward, if I distributed the APK, would the DMCA trolls smash my head open?
Quoted from the article I linked: Staring at the screen before bed could leave you lying awake. That’s because direct exposure to such abnormal light sources inhibits the body’s secretion of melatonin, say several sleep experts.
I'm not asking you to rely on my anecdote. Also, like virtually every scientific study with humans, it's not going to be true for everyone -- rather it's that they'll find an increased commonality in [some effect] with group A versus the control group. In my personal experience, I fall asleep a lot faster if I avoid LCD screens before sleeping. The study puts some merit behind my anecdotes.
You must be new to this whole science thing. We criticize many studies for being obvious, but personal anecdote is the inspiration for pinning down statistics and perhaps even figuring out why things that we instinctively believe happen do happen. And thanks to the fact people with this problem exist, eInk will always have a market.
One more thing, and this I can attest to personally because I have my laptop by my bed most of the time. LCD tablets screw up your sleep cycle and so do laptops. Kindle does not because it's like paper.
and Amazon's Kindle is just crap in comparison. [...] the big fight will be on for a more functional and colourful table eReader,
It's a mistake to compare Kindle to iPad style tablets. Kindle is a very specialized content consumption device, and I'm more likely to buy one than a tablet. (which for me is just a nerfed computer) eInk has super-low power consumption and doesn't tire out my eyes when reading. As a programmer, I've longed for an eInk laptop. I seriously could live with the 2fps to be able to work longer -- LCD's tire my eyes badly.
Also, Kindle's not meant to be an all-in-one. It's for reading books, and with a one month battery life, anyone who goes camping or visits the beach regularly whatnot will find it more practical. iPad is just the new idiot box.
Solution is to just use a different browser for Facebook. Facebook on Chrome browser can't tell where you've been on Firefox.
I had to recently face facts, that not using Facebook was bad for my social life. And this is having weekend interests that, for the most part, are far away from the connected world.
Let's be blunt. Only nerds on tech sites worry about "closeness."
And we're nerds, so we're going to continue pounding sand in places that welcome us.
That aside, true innovation demands openness and freedom. Tech will cease to be a hot sector when government and corporate forces align in a way that mainly protects existing entities. (which is sadly inevitable)
Actually, J2ME phones were pretty decent at the higher end. I got a V3xx pretty cheap before the iPhone came out, and (despite the godawful dial pad = keyboard interface -- should've gone QWERTY phone) it ran really well. Checking email and other things were no problem. Furthermore, I was able to install and run (on AT&T's network) a stateful clientserver game that I created and show it off at interviews -- without paying Sun a dime or rooting the phone. That's how I got into the mobile industry, and I'm still there today.
Also, J2ME had a number of indie communities with free content for J2ME users. iOS is closer to BREW in its actual openness. Apple just did one better than the carriers by having far fewer restrictions than the carriers had, but J2ME still trumps it in openness. (and Android went one better than J2ME in the same way -- bypassing the carrier restrictions for the centralized network)
I'm just saying that what made iPhone really work was there already. Apple just managed to wrest control of the centralized market from the carriers and beat them at their own game. (which I'm not downplaying by any means, I'm just trying to bring your original assertions back down to reality)
They spawned it -- through marketing. The components were already there. J2ME had the freedom of content creation, years ago, that resembles Android today. In some ways, J2ME had more freedom than Apple. The carriers had markets. LG had touch for a couple years before Apple jumped in with capacative multi-touch.
A charismatic man wearing a black turtleneck convinced everyone that it's the next great thing, charged a premium that ensured that the device would attract content purchasers and not just people who just want to make phone calls, and sold the initial device heavily on promises of the future. Remember that the Apple App Store did not launch with the iPhone. That same man managed to convince everyone a year later that apps are best funnelled to them through a market that takes a 30% cut of all apps sold. (and through no other means) Since then, for the most part they've just been miniaturizing things that the public "invented" on PCs over the previous 30 years.
But whether you love or hate Apple, the only thing propping them up is the public's believing in the reality-breaching value of their iDevices. It's much like with the stock market or currency, combined with the force that makes Facebook work as a social network. So long as everyone feels like everyone is doing [x], they're willing to bet on the future of [x] -- be it for app makers or smartphone consumers who want strong app support in the future.
But there are limits that lie within the interface. You can't type as quickly as with a keyboard. The blunt of your finger can't compete with a mouse or a stylus. These limits are comparable for both iPhone and Android devices -- even Android devices with a keyboard. (I can type faster than touch, but not nearly as quickly as with a keyboard) Multitouch has an advantage with a few things, like audio apps, but most accolades belong with the standard PC interface.
Then there are the limits placed by Apple that Android lacks, like no code interpretation, anti-competitive practices with apps that resemble iStuff, and $99 per year for the right to install something from a secondary source onto your device. (through signature hell and xcode, or free if you root the device)
For content creation, the base advantage goes to PC's, then Android devices as you have the freedom to go around Google's Market, and then iOS. When Apple loses the advantage of the higher app count, they'll be in trouble.
I think Google wants to beat Apple, and thanks to Apple's existence they have an argument against said regulators. But I doubt they'd ever become Apple. It's just not their style.
Not to mention, Google has some no-click uses embedded into its main page: like metric conversion, and calculator. If they included those, the results would be screwed up.
Well, everyone knows there are no women on the internet, but all hackers are children. Without AI, Anonymous will run out of new members within the next decade.
I have nothing against analog watches, but the industry behind them is trying to make them a status thing. Rebranding them as "timepieces", questioning a person's (typically focused on males) class, tying social status to particular models. This has been done since the dawn of the wrist watch, but spam and mall displays reinforce this, which in turn gets reinforced by the consumers who matter to the young upstart go-getter. (executives and other professionals typically -not- in a tech industry) This is the perpetual motion machine which has kept said antiquated industry afloat.
Frivolous, maybe...but definitely not trivial, and ABSOLUTELY not ignorable. Industries often resort to the legal system to protect themselves from overcrowding or obsolescence. Try starting a cab company in New York for instance...most people can't, and those who can will take decades to make back the seed money.
This is clearly lawyers trying protect their industry via the state legal system, and they may win...in which case LegalZoom may give Missouri the finger and bar Missourans from using the site, while Missouri's legal profession is protected. Once that happens, many other states (whose legislatures and federal elected officials are slanted heavily toward the legal profession) will follow suit and/or tweak their laws to push out sites like LegalZoom. End result: We all go back to spending $200/hr for everyday legal needs.
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I normally try to avoid making such a post, but I could fit most of that into my Columbia OmniHeat jacket from a year ago. I've seen others with various styles of jackets that could fit just as much. I just feel underwhelmed by the product.
Maybe if he had a couple more layers of stuff and filled the entire screen with it when laying it on a table, it would have been more impressive.
Can't speak for iPhone and its non-removable battery, but I had a little "happening" while hiking that ended up with my Galaxy S (Android) phone submerged for several minutes. Didn't remove the battery until nearly 8 hours later, and 24 hours later I thought for sure it was dead. But I just needed to be more patient -- nearly a year later I tried it on a lark and it was fine. (the downside being I now had two identical phones on the same carrier and a hole in my pocket, hehe)
That said, I doubt your Android phone will be that delicate.
On the subject of TFA, I wouldn't mind a phone I could take with me diving at shallower depths (or better yet, boring deco stops)...but due to the limits of capacative touchscreens, I'd need something with physical buttons...
The real reason behind the shutdown is to keep its citizens unaware of the potassium shortage...
Cool. The giggling kid really gives it away then. The "star" is pretty convincing...especially the facial expressions. (and sorry for the whole Buzz Killington schtik, hehe...)
Everyone thinks it's fake, except I had a brother who was exactly that flavor of mentally ill. Though none of us were giggling like the other kid...it's pretty miserable to be around. He'd just do stuff like that for hours on end, even into the night sometimes.
I'm leaning toward skepticism of skepticism on this one. Is there any confirmation that it's fake?
They're also involved with roughly estimating natural resources in a region. Remember that story awhile back where it was discovered Afghanistan is rich with various resources? That was the USGS' doing.
It's not something we like to talk about, but there's a tactical advantage to knowing these things...
amen to that, he contributed more to driving the technology industry than just about anyone else.
Statements like this make me no longer care about the inappropriate timing of the comment I'm about to make, but I'll make it anyway: I sure hope the latest news means that objectivity will return to how devices are rated, how interfaces are criticized, how Apple is viewed by the media, and how computing will progress from here on out. From the fall of AOL to the rise of iComputing, we had a 12 year golden age where walled gardens were derided, people owned their own devices, and the landscape of the internet formed more or less naturally.
That said, I will miss how he made it okay to latch onto a particular fashion and stick to it. That's one of the few things we'd agree on.
Because it's a better idea for yet another government entity to put off its financial obligations for future generations to pay for?
Regardless of who lobbied for this, or which unpopular president passed it, it should be patently obvious what the root of this problem is. (hint: It was mentioned in the summary)
svn checkout http ://moonblink.googlecode.com/svn/trunk moonblink-read-only
(remove the space...can't stop it from being turned into a link)
It's available on google code still. It's a little bit of a pain to build...I had to combine the HermitAndroid and HermitLibrary src into the Tricorder project, and then delete said libraries. (but I build with CLI, eclipse may end up being easy peasy) svn checkout http://moonblink.googlecode.com/svn/trunk moonblink-read-only As I'm not an anonymous coward, if I distributed the APK, would the DMCA trolls smash my head open?
Quoted from the article I linked:
Staring at the screen before bed could leave you lying awake. That’s because direct exposure to such abnormal light sources inhibits the body’s secretion of melatonin, say several sleep experts.
I'm not asking you to rely on my anecdote. Also, like virtually every scientific study with humans, it's not going to be true for everyone -- rather it's that they'll find an increased commonality in [some effect] with group A versus the control group. In my personal experience, I fall asleep a lot faster if I avoid LCD screens before sleeping. The study puts some merit behind my anecdotes.
You must be new to this whole science thing. We criticize many studies for being obvious, but personal anecdote is the inspiration for pinning down statistics and perhaps even figuring out why things that we instinctively believe happen do happen. And thanks to the fact people with this problem exist, eInk will always have a market.
One more thing, and this I can attest to personally because I have my laptop by my bed most of the time. LCD tablets screw up your sleep cycle and so do laptops. Kindle does not because it's like paper.
and Amazon's Kindle is just crap in comparison. [...] the big fight will be on for a more functional and colourful table eReader,
It's a mistake to compare Kindle to iPad style tablets. Kindle is a very specialized content consumption device, and I'm more likely to buy one than a tablet. (which for me is just a nerfed computer) eInk has super-low power consumption and doesn't tire out my eyes when reading. As a programmer, I've longed for an eInk laptop. I seriously could live with the 2fps to be able to work longer -- LCD's tire my eyes badly.
Also, Kindle's not meant to be an all-in-one. It's for reading books, and with a one month battery life, anyone who goes camping or visits the beach regularly whatnot will find it more practical. iPad is just the new idiot box.
Solution is to just use a different browser for Facebook. Facebook on Chrome browser can't tell where you've been on Firefox.
I had to recently face facts, that not using Facebook was bad for my social life. And this is having weekend interests that, for the most part, are far away from the connected world.
Let's be blunt. Only nerds on tech sites worry about "closeness."
And we're nerds, so we're going to continue pounding sand in places that welcome us.
That aside, true innovation demands openness and freedom. Tech will cease to be a hot sector when government and corporate forces align in a way that mainly protects existing entities. (which is sadly inevitable)
http://xkcd.com/927/
Actually, J2ME phones were pretty decent at the higher end. I got a V3xx pretty cheap before the iPhone came out, and (despite the godawful dial pad = keyboard interface -- should've gone QWERTY phone) it ran really well. Checking email and other things were no problem. Furthermore, I was able to install and run (on AT&T's network) a stateful clientserver game that I created and show it off at interviews -- without paying Sun a dime or rooting the phone. That's how I got into the mobile industry, and I'm still there today.
Also, J2ME had a number of indie communities with free content for J2ME users. iOS is closer to BREW in its actual openness. Apple just did one better than the carriers by having far fewer restrictions than the carriers had, but J2ME still trumps it in openness. (and Android went one better than J2ME in the same way -- bypassing the carrier restrictions for the centralized network)
I'm just saying that what made iPhone really work was there already. Apple just managed to wrest control of the centralized market from the carriers and beat them at their own game. (which I'm not downplaying by any means, I'm just trying to bring your original assertions back down to reality)
They spawned it -- through marketing. The components were already there. J2ME had the freedom of content creation, years ago, that resembles Android today. In some ways, J2ME had more freedom than Apple. The carriers had markets. LG had touch for a couple years before Apple jumped in with capacative multi-touch.
A charismatic man wearing a black turtleneck convinced everyone that it's the next great thing, charged a premium that ensured that the device would attract content purchasers and not just people who just want to make phone calls, and sold the initial device heavily on promises of the future. Remember that the Apple App Store did not launch with the iPhone. That same man managed to convince everyone a year later that apps are best funnelled to them through a market that takes a 30% cut of all apps sold. (and through no other means) Since then, for the most part they've just been miniaturizing things that the public "invented" on PCs over the previous 30 years.
But whether you love or hate Apple, the only thing propping them up is the public's believing in the reality-breaching value of their iDevices. It's much like with the stock market or currency, combined with the force that makes Facebook work as a social network. So long as everyone feels like everyone is doing [x], they're willing to bet on the future of [x] -- be it for app makers or smartphone consumers who want strong app support in the future.
But there are limits that lie within the interface. You can't type as quickly as with a keyboard. The blunt of your finger can't compete with a mouse or a stylus. These limits are comparable for both iPhone and Android devices -- even Android devices with a keyboard. (I can type faster than touch, but not nearly as quickly as with a keyboard) Multitouch has an advantage with a few things, like audio apps, but most accolades belong with the standard PC interface.
Then there are the limits placed by Apple that Android lacks, like no code interpretation, anti-competitive practices with apps that resemble iStuff, and $99 per year for the right to install something from a secondary source onto your device. (through signature hell and xcode, or free if you root the device)
For content creation, the base advantage goes to PC's, then Android devices as you have the freedom to go around Google's Market, and then iOS. When Apple loses the advantage of the higher app count, they'll be in trouble.
I think Google wants to beat Apple, and thanks to Apple's existence they have an argument against said regulators. But I doubt they'd ever become Apple. It's just not their style.
Not to mention, Google has some no-click uses embedded into its main page: like metric conversion, and calculator. If they included those, the results would be screwed up.
Well, everyone knows there are no women on the internet, but all hackers are children. Without AI, Anonymous will run out of new members within the next decade.
Particularly the part about defeating the evil Mordor.
I have nothing against analog watches, but the industry behind them is trying to make them a status thing. Rebranding them as "timepieces", questioning a person's (typically focused on males) class, tying social status to particular models. This has been done since the dawn of the wrist watch, but spam and mall displays reinforce this, which in turn gets reinforced by the consumers who matter to the young upstart go-getter. (executives and other professionals typically -not- in a tech industry) This is the perpetual motion machine which has kept said antiquated industry afloat.
Frivolous, maybe...but definitely not trivial, and ABSOLUTELY not ignorable. Industries often resort to the legal system to protect themselves from overcrowding or obsolescence. Try starting a cab company in New York for instance...most people can't, and those who can will take decades to make back the seed money.
This is clearly lawyers trying protect their industry via the state legal system, and they may win...in which case LegalZoom may give Missouri the finger and bar Missourans from using the site, while Missouri's legal profession is protected. Once that happens, many other states (whose legislatures and federal elected officials are slanted heavily toward the legal profession) will follow suit and/or tweak their laws to push out sites like LegalZoom. End result: We all go back to spending $200/hr for everyday legal needs.