I admit to only a quick scan through of the patent doc - but if they're 'predefined' paths, whether or not this is dismissed as prior art, does it count as a predefined path if you nominate your end points to swipe, or just have a swipe in some general direction e.g. left right, or up/down anywhere on the screen... then there was the Android style of sensing a swipe pattern. Would these fall foul? or only an iOS style "here is the predefined one way to unlock" built in to the OS?
If you're suddenly increasing the number of card-based transactions - won't that be a nice windfall for banks/transactions processing businesses that collect every time a transaction is run over their service? beyond the 'Big Brother' implications of this move, is there a profit motive?
are Google deceiving search users into visiting the sites of advertisers? Google ads tend to be fairly obvious as Google ads, if they were doing something sneaky like inserting adverts into search results, then that would be different IMO.
when I was younger I build something similar, little dynamo with a water wheel in a bit of pipe I just hooked it to a tap to check it worked - theory was that it'd sit inline on your main water line and generate a bit of power whenever you ran a tap/shower/dishwasher/toilet/whatever... that way it only saw clean water.
It worked in theory, and was a neat 'hey mum, look what I made' thing, but I think the amount of power versus the cost and all those real-life factors made it not viable. that and i was only connecting it to a tap, don't know how well the sealing would have gone if it was living in a high pressure environment full time.
(and I remember reading ina kids book when I was little about keeping things cool using a wet terracotta pot - is the pot in a pot really that big a leap?)
no, not wondering if a hot swap involves one of those deep fryer baskets.
But with comments about doing hardware swaps and waiting for oil drainage, can't these problems be solved with keeping some components in boxes/trays, and cirulating the oil in and out of each compartment via something similar to the dry break connectors used in some motorsport hoses.
That way you just yank it out and the only bit of oil to worry about is the amount immediately around the swapped part - which you could leave to drain, rather than having the admin looking like he's just been oil wrestling.
Or is this just a carrot to get IT depts to step up efforts to lure more women into IT?
Oh, and good luck with the E911 crap... In the course of a minute, you've gone from the east end of a major city to the west end according to the cells.
Hello operator, I need a fire truck with a REEEALLY long ladder.
Though if things are that big an emergency, when they need your location it'll be "that big smoking crater".
is why does the same game on Xbox360 cost AU120 while the Xbox game cost AU90 at release?
The games in question have already been out for a fair while on XBox, yet the 360 version costs even more and the game is old. (OK, maybe not a better question, but I find it damn irritating/rant)
Using GSM, the networks don't really interfere with what devices I can use on the network - so long as it takes a SIM card and I've paid it up I'm sweet (they might lock down the phones they subsidise and sell to Joe SixPack, but that is their business, I can take the cheaper deal or find my own)
So if the cell networks open up and let people install Skype on their phones, fine, but if that is eating up their profits won't they just make data costs prohibitive? or make data transmission of the type Skype requires not viable - bump up the latency maybe? You might not get a charge on your bill that shows as a voice call, but there is still no escaping the telco sitting in the middle shuffling your bits back n forth.
(One painful, but only slightly on topic telco thing is that they got Microsoft to not provide any way to get at the audio of a voice call in Windows CE, very annoying)
you don't seem to be cursing and spitting as you say 'Microsoft CRM' *spit*, you mustn't have had the joy of trying to get CRM and Great Plains talking nicely via the official CRM-Great Plains integration. On the off chance that you navigated through the undocumented gotchas about how the site could be setup, how long server names could be, and whether you'd made a slight customisation without sacrificing the appropriate number of children - you then had the fun of it working for the first five transactions and then - kaput.
My favourite feature is being able to add fields, but never remove them.
in Australia we've been able to have individual, digital control of the water temperature at the outlet for years (linked blurb is dated Sep 2000), it has a touchpad and a display showing the temp requested, so it is safe to have installed in the shower. From the link, you set the temp, it sends an RF signal to mix valves which handle mixing hot and cold to match what you asked for.
the prefpass registration only requires an email address, but logging in requires email + password - it is right there on the front page: http://prefpass.com/
I assume they'd just generate a password and send it out to you.
just wanted to give a "cheers" to the MS dev team working on this. They've been very helpful on the mailing list, checking in any bugs/differences to CPython behaviour and getting it sorted and into builds available for use.
yes. There are a few hoops to jump through, but afterwards you can code and debug from VS
I wonder how this..
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..will pan out boom tish
Interesting idea, can it alter temperatures per pot on the stove? so my meat sauce cooks on high then simmers while something else does a controlled slow cook? Nice vendor lock in - you now have to buy pots, pans, skillets AND the stove they belong to.
bugger, I wish I'd read/. before browsing porno this afternoon.
despite it saying you must agree to something, my XP SP2 laptop got hit by this this afternoon - no 'downloads', just happened to browse to a porno page that wanted to auto-start a download of: http://85.255.115.171/bt/7/wmf/wmf_dcode.wmf
I clicked no, I didn't want to run or save the file... but a few minutes later, up came the spyware. First time this box has been infected. This was on Mozilla 1.7.12
Keyra the "Mystery Booty" or "hottest ass in the wolrd!!!!111one11!" didn't make the list, for a while I couldn't log on to a forum WITHOUT seeing something about that one.
as others have said, it would be best to seak advice from your embassy in the countries, and if advice from poepl in the area about anyone who may object to you carrying a GPS around.
Beyond that, I'd say do it covertly, do you actually need to have your GPS out so you can read from it all the time? just stick it and pocket pc in your backpack and have them logging position into a simple database, then later on you can use satellite pictures to get detail.
I do this from the car to then make moving maps of cruises my car club goes on using google maps.
is this really a 'new' idea, or just a new application?
I'm sure there have been plenty of active noise cancellation devices built around these principles for ages.
The car one that someone else mentioned, sampling road noise and playing back an out of phase sound. I thought I'd read something about this also being used in aircraft cockpits to allow for clearer comunications as you'd be removing the engine noise... or just create a cone of silence to allow you to sleep at night if you're near a busy road.
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I admit to only a quick scan through of the patent doc - but if they're 'predefined' paths, whether or not this is dismissed as prior art, does it count as a predefined path if you nominate your end points to swipe, or just have a swipe in some general direction e.g. left right, or up/down anywhere on the screen... then there was the Android style of sensing a swipe pattern. Would these fall foul? or only an iOS style "here is the predefined one way to unlock" built in to the OS?
If you're suddenly increasing the number of card-based transactions - won't that be a nice windfall for banks/transactions processing businesses that collect every time a transaction is run over their service? beyond the 'Big Brother' implications of this move, is there a profit motive?
From the description this sounds the same as Alpine PulseTouch which came out for their in-car media units several years ago
how much of your music is in 5.1?
my DVD movies might be, but the music is all plain ol stereo.
"allowing you to slide your finger across the screen to immediately shut off the display and keep what you're working on confidential"
couldn't I just push a button?
gestures are cool and all, but that sounds pretty innefficient unless I'm already running my hand on the screen.
are Google deceiving search users into visiting the sites of advertisers? Google ads tend to be fairly obvious as Google ads, if they were doing something sneaky like inserting adverts into search results, then that would be different IMO.
when I was younger I build something similar, little dynamo with a water wheel in a bit of pipe I just hooked it to a tap to check it worked - theory was that it'd sit inline on your main water line and generate a bit of power whenever you ran a tap/shower/dishwasher/toilet/whatever... that way it only saw clean water.
It worked in theory, and was a neat 'hey mum, look what I made' thing, but I think the amount of power versus the cost and all those real-life factors made it not viable. that and i was only connecting it to a tap, don't know how well the sealing would have gone if it was living in a high pressure environment full time.
that sounds very much like a coolgardie safe
(and I remember reading ina kids book when I was little about keeping things cool using a wet terracotta pot - is the pot in a pot really that big a leap?)
no, not wondering if a hot swap involves one of those deep fryer baskets.
But with comments about doing hardware swaps and waiting for oil drainage, can't these problems be solved with keeping some components in boxes/trays, and cirulating the oil in and out of each compartment via something similar to the dry break connectors used in some motorsport hoses.
That way you just yank it out and the only bit of oil to worry about is the amount immediately around the swapped part - which you could leave to drain, rather than having the admin looking like he's just been oil wrestling.
Or is this just a carrot to get IT depts to step up efforts to lure more women into IT?
Hello operator, I need a fire truck with a REEEALLY long ladder.
Though if things are that big an emergency, when they need your location it'll be "that big smoking crater".
is why does the same game on Xbox360 cost AU120 while the Xbox game cost AU90 at release?
/rant)
The games in question have already been out for a fair while on XBox, yet the 360 version costs even more and the game is old. (OK, maybe not a better question, but I find it damn irritating
Using GSM, the networks don't really interfere with what devices I can use on the network - so long as it takes a SIM card and I've paid it up I'm sweet (they might lock down the phones they subsidise and sell to Joe SixPack, but that is their business, I can take the cheaper deal or find my own)
So if the cell networks open up and let people install Skype on their phones, fine, but if that is eating up their profits won't they just make data costs prohibitive? or make data transmission of the type Skype requires not viable - bump up the latency maybe? You might not get a charge on your bill that shows as a voice call, but there is still no escaping the telco sitting in the middle shuffling your bits back n forth.
(One painful, but only slightly on topic telco thing is that they got Microsoft to not provide any way to get at the audio of a voice call in Windows CE, very annoying)
/. needs an exception to the mod points to make this + eleventy billion.
+5 Funny? methinks +5 Informative
you don't seem to be cursing and spitting as you say 'Microsoft CRM' *spit*, you mustn't have had the joy of trying to get CRM and Great Plains talking nicely via the official CRM-Great Plains integration. On the off chance that you navigated through the undocumented gotchas about how the site could be setup, how long server names could be, and whether you'd made a slight customisation without sacrificing the appropriate number of children - you then had the fun of it working for the first five transactions and then - kaput.
My favourite feature is being able to add fields, but never remove them.
in Australia we've been able to have individual, digital control of the water temperature at the outlet for years (linked blurb is dated Sep 2000), it has a touchpad and a display showing the temp requested, so it is safe to have installed in the shower. From the link, you set the temp, it sends an RF signal to mix valves which handle mixing hot and cold to match what you asked for.
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http://www.infolink.com.au/articles/17/0C002517.a
the prefpass registration only requires an email address, but logging in requires email + password - it is right there on the front page: http://prefpass.com/
I assume they'd just generate a password and send it out to you.
mod parent up. All these posts bashing IP and MS, this one hits on one of the coolest things about it - access to all the .Net libraries.
just wanted to give a "cheers" to the MS dev team working on this.
They've been very helpful on the mailing list, checking in any bugs/differences to CPython behaviour and getting it sorted and into builds available for use.
yes. There are a few hoops to jump through, but afterwards you can code and debug from VS
..will pan out boom tish
Interesting idea, can it alter temperatures per pot on the stove? so my meat sauce cooks on high then simmers while something else does a controlled slow cook? Nice vendor lock in - you now have to buy pots, pans, skillets AND the stove they belong to.
bugger, I wish I'd read /. before browsing porno this afternoon.
despite it saying you must agree to something, my XP SP2 laptop got hit by this this afternoon - no 'downloads', just happened to browse to a porno page that wanted to auto-start a download of:
http://85.255.115.171/bt/7/wmf/wmf_dcode.wmf
I clicked no, I didn't want to run or save the file... but a few minutes later, up came the spyware. First time this box has been infected. This was on Mozilla 1.7.12
Keyra the "Mystery Booty" or "hottest ass in the wolrd!!!!111one11!" didn't make the list, for a while I couldn't log on to a forum WITHOUT seeing something about that one.
Beyond that, I'd say do it covertly, do you actually need to have your GPS out so you can read from it all the time? just stick it and pocket pc in your backpack and have them logging position into a simple database, then later on you can use satellite pictures to get detail.
I do this from the car to then make moving maps of cruises my car club goes on using google maps.
sweet.. erm, bugger, now I have to rename all my machines on the LAN since people keep on creating Internet hosts with those non-TLD names...
(or make sure I have my own registered domain name and refer to each machine with full address...screw that)
is this really a 'new' idea, or just a new application?
I'm sure there have been plenty of active noise cancellation devices built around these principles for ages.
The car one that someone else mentioned, sampling road noise and playing back an out of phase sound. I thought I'd read something about this also being used in aircraft cockpits to allow for clearer comunications as you'd be removing the engine noise... or just create a cone of silence to allow you to sleep at night if you're near a busy road.