Lemme see if I get this: Google has a patent on face recognition to access a device, but Apple is seeking a patent on face recognition to do anything useful on the device. Both of which are for concepts that are so obvious I can understand it without RTFA.
So we either have a de facto OS monopoly (via interlocking licensing), or no product at all. Innovation!
Get a big ass cooler, and start freezing liter bottles of water. LOTS of them. When you roll out, swap your ice packs. Park with your kit in a diving-style ziplock. The ice will melt quickly, but we're only aiming for, say, 40C, not actually cold.
In all seriousness, I think the climate is much more resilient than most alarmists are saying. We have had both much hatter times and much cooler times, and nothing tipped over then.
Sure, just one more mass extinction, a few million years go by and we're back to baseline. No big deal.
Plug it into the wall, get a couple cheap bluetooth receivers or just a wired audio switcher. Add some midrange Logitech powered 2.1 speakers and you have yourself the poor man's version of a $2000 Sonos setup.
Dear OP: Feel free to ignore grammar nazis for the length of your recovery.
And for the grammar police: perhaps consider that the person dropping punctuation or letters may have barriers to communication that you do not. Like maybe a broken hand.
I broke my non-dominant hand and had it casted while on a job than involved writing on deadline. I worked with paper for a while, but mostly just got good at one handed fly-over-the-left-side typing. If you know where the keys are "hunt and peck" turns into "peck" and that's actually reasonably fast.
I think, on balance, in 6 weeks you're still going to be faster on your normal keyboard than a new layout or speech to text.
> Apple ended up losing the case. But it's what happened next that's really fascinating. Apple didn't stop innovating at all.'"
Yeah, competition is a bitch. You have to keep working. Much nicer not to have any competition - no innovation required at all. Ask Comcast about that.
My wife and I trashed three different eInk readers (Nook, Kobo, Kindle) by allowing sharp things to impact the screen, once even through a padded neoprene sleeve. Keys in a backpack = fatal. Get the eink reader for the screen, but then spend decent money on a case with a rigid, robust screen protector that flips shut whenever the device isn't being read.
Also: I was a big fan of our Kobo, if you can handle buying books via laptop and syncing via Calibri. A simple, focused, cheap device.
Citation needed. If markets were efficient or rational all the time, then perhaps market price would always be met, but warzone commerce in central Africa is most assuredly not efficient or rational. Refusing purchase of conflict products has effects. Slavery and child labor still exist, but they are massively less common now that the practice is scandalous.
Zakaria had one lightly modified paragraph about policy history that made it into his work without attribution. One graf. CNN has dug through his body of work (with outside help from the conservative blogs, which hate Zakaria), found no other examples of poor work, and reinstated him.
Blair invented unnamed sources, reported from cities he did not even visit, and a host of other things under the category of "making shit up" about breaking news that included the work he was most known and respected for. In other words, his career as a whole was a fraud. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayson_Blair#Plagiarism_and_fabrication_scandal
This is a bit like saying "The Apollo program could have achieved the same results by providing the astronauts with laptop computers".
Journalism as you know it today -- field correspondents! -- hadn't been invented yet. At the time, newspapers were either gentlemen sending letters around or a summary of whatever people were saying. The idea of professional fact gatherers was a fairly recent development, and one hopes, not a transitional one to whatever we do now.
> Thus the obvious answer is to try and avoid the dangers of the free market by asking the government to stop your competitors from being so competitive.
If by "great weakness with this" you mean, "inherent problem with the Internet, which focused, thoughtful projects by people who care about quality - like this one right here - are solving", then sure, I agree with you.
Does slashdot have a category for unconfirmed photos of a frakking plug? Because that would go great with the "op-eds about what I think the bezel width might be" and the "patent cases even the judge is bored with" section.
They don't advertise it via the Web, but T Mobile appears to be the vendor of choice among people who want minimum commitment mobile phones. Devices start at $20, unlimited SMS is $15 month to month.
We downgraded from smartphones to unlimited text + pay to talk, and haven't looked back. I already carry a 4G wifi and a laptop at all times, so the ~$100 a month for a fragile device (hardware and software) with 4 hours of battery life and probable spyware just seemed insane in hindsight.
You do realize that inflation benefits people with debt, right? And that inflation is currently near historic lows, right? And that if the Congress were seriously worried about our debt, they'd be telling the fed to run up inflation? But then, that would hurt banks (who are the among those collecting on that national debt), so that ain't gonna happen.
You couldn't eliminate roads, because unless you live in a place without roads, they aren't going anywhere. Instead, you have a similar adoption curve with mobile tech in places that never got landlines. For instance, it's possible in most of Africa to do all your banking by SMS. The US will adopt that, um, eventually. Maybe.
The places this will disrupt will be the pleasant climes, near good long-haul airports, but without a lot of auto infrastructure. I could see archipelagos of semi-remote enclaves sprawling across open ranchland with the net and your hover car to tie it all together. Silicon Dakotas, anyone?
Of course, oil costs make all this fruity. Mass transit is the future, the only question is whether it sucks or not.
I just move to wherever Slashdot puts inside of the string "Is"..."the next Silicon Valley?" I have a script set up to buy airline tickets and everything. Don't miss out!
The US's major creditor is also its biggest trading partner. China can't wreck the US economy without destroying their own. And if you think the US needs Chinese stuff, China needs US markets more. The debt is not a big deal other than as a political flamebait; if it was, institutional money wouldn't still be using dollars as a reserve currency and running up US equity markets.
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Lemme see if I get this: Google has a patent on face recognition to access a device, but Apple is seeking a patent on face recognition to do anything useful on the device. Both of which are for concepts that are so obvious I can understand it without RTFA.
So we either have a de facto OS monopoly (via interlocking licensing), or no product at all. Innovation!
Get a big ass cooler, and start freezing liter bottles of water. LOTS of them. When you roll out, swap your ice packs. Park with your kit in a diving-style ziplock. The ice will melt quickly, but we're only aiming for, say, 40C, not actually cold.
In all seriousness, I think the climate is much more resilient than most alarmists are saying. We have had both much hatter times and much cooler times, and nothing tipped over then.
Sure, just one more mass extinction, a few million years go by and we're back to baseline. No big deal.
Also, this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowball_Earth
Plug it into the wall, get a couple cheap bluetooth receivers or just a wired audio switcher. Add some midrange Logitech powered 2.1 speakers and you have yourself the poor man's version of a $2000 Sonos setup.
Dear OP: Feel free to ignore grammar nazis for the length of your recovery.
And for the grammar police: perhaps consider that the person dropping punctuation or letters may have barriers to communication that you do not. Like maybe a broken hand.
I broke my non-dominant hand and had it casted while on a job than involved writing on deadline. I worked with paper for a while, but mostly just got good at one handed fly-over-the-left-side typing. If you know where the keys are "hunt and peck" turns into "peck" and that's actually reasonably fast.
I think, on balance, in 6 weeks you're still going to be faster on your normal keyboard than a new layout or speech to text.
> Apple ended up losing the case. But it's what happened next that's really fascinating. Apple didn't stop innovating at all.'"
Yeah, competition is a bitch. You have to keep working. Much nicer not to have any competition - no innovation required at all. Ask Comcast about that.
My wife and I trashed three different eInk readers (Nook, Kobo, Kindle) by allowing sharp things to impact the screen, once even through a padded neoprene sleeve. Keys in a backpack = fatal. Get the eink reader for the screen, but then spend decent money on a case with a rigid, robust screen protector that flips shut whenever the device isn't being read.
Also: I was a big fan of our Kobo, if you can handle buying books via laptop and syncing via Calibri. A simple, focused, cheap device.
Citation needed. If markets were efficient or rational all the time, then perhaps market price would always be met, but warzone commerce in central Africa is most assuredly not efficient or rational. Refusing purchase of conflict products has effects. Slavery and child labor still exist, but they are massively less common now that the practice is scandalous.
RINGTONE.
The two are really not comparable:
Zakaria had one lightly modified paragraph about policy history that made it into his work without attribution. One graf. CNN has dug through his body of work (with outside help from the conservative blogs, which hate Zakaria), found no other examples of poor work, and reinstated him.
Blair invented unnamed sources, reported from cities he did not even visit, and a host of other things under the category of "making shit up" about breaking news that included the work he was most known and respected for. In other words, his career as a whole was a fraud.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jayson_Blair#Plagiarism_and_fabrication_scandal
This is a bit like saying "The Apollo program could have achieved the same results by providing the astronauts with laptop computers".
Journalism as you know it today -- field correspondents! -- hadn't been invented yet. At the time, newspapers were either gentlemen sending letters around or a summary of whatever people were saying. The idea of professional fact gatherers was a fairly recent development, and one hopes, not a transitional one to whatever we do now.
> Thus the obvious answer is to try and avoid the dangers of the free market by asking the government to stop your competitors from being so competitive.
Or keep innovating. Or both. Jury's still out.
If by "great weakness with this" you mean, "inherent problem with the Internet, which focused, thoughtful projects by people who care about quality - like this one right here - are solving", then sure, I agree with you.
Does slashdot have a category for unconfirmed photos of a frakking plug? Because that would go great with the "op-eds about what I think the bezel width might be" and the "patent cases even the judge is bored with" section.
They don't advertise it via the Web, but T Mobile appears to be the vendor of choice among people who want minimum commitment mobile phones. Devices start at $20, unlimited SMS is $15 month to month.
http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/monthly-4g-plans
We downgraded from smartphones to unlimited text + pay to talk, and haven't looked back. I already carry a 4G wifi and a laptop at all times, so the ~$100 a month for a fragile device (hardware and software) with 4 hours of battery life and probable spyware just seemed insane in hindsight.
You do realize that inflation benefits people with debt, right? And that inflation is currently near historic lows, right? And that if the Congress were seriously worried about our debt, they'd be telling the fed to run up inflation? But then, that would hurt banks (who are the among those collecting on that national debt), so that ain't gonna happen.
If your service can be cracked using no other information than knowing that your target uses it, your security is not good.
You couldn't eliminate roads, because unless you live in a place without roads, they aren't going anywhere. Instead, you have a similar adoption curve with mobile tech in places that never got landlines. For instance, it's possible in most of Africa to do all your banking by SMS. The US will adopt that, um, eventually. Maybe.
The places this will disrupt will be the pleasant climes, near good long-haul airports, but without a lot of auto infrastructure. I could see archipelagos of semi-remote enclaves sprawling across open ranchland with the net and your hover car to tie it all together. Silicon Dakotas, anyone?
Of course, oil costs make all this fruity. Mass transit is the future, the only question is whether it sucks or not.
Some folks who do good work in the less-famous parts of the Internet:
https://www.theengineroom.org/
http://opennet.net/
http://globalintegrity.org/
https://www.eff.org/
Disclosure: I've worked for two of these, though not recently.
I just move to wherever Slashdot puts inside of the string "Is"..."the next Silicon Valley?" I have a script set up to buy airline tickets and everything. Don't miss out!
The US's major creditor is also its biggest trading partner. China can't wreck the US economy without destroying their own. And if you think the US needs Chinese stuff, China needs US markets more. The debt is not a big deal other than as a political flamebait; if it was, institutional money wouldn't still be using dollars as a reserve currency and running up US equity markets.
It works on every device with a webbrowser, no code needed, with the additional bonus of having the user type in your URL by hand. Thas marketing!
QRs are just links that you can't click without launching a specific 'click a QR link' reader. Less of all this please.
I just want to know how much malware I can pack into one. Runs any javascript? Pretty please?
Yes, except the HFT tax is iterated a billion times a day. That's the "HF" part of it. And destabilizes entire markets in the bargain.