It might have to do with the audio lag in the android sound system. Android uses something called audioflinger which had a very high latency. This became apparent to me when I tried running some emulators on my phone a year ago. Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) seems to have fixed this issue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WQcl4RDl5I
Vending machines that take the Susan B. Anthony dollar should also take the newer Sacagewea dollars and Presidential dollars, because they were manufactured to be electrically compatible.
I think you mean dimensionally, not electrically.
No, I mean electrically, as in vending machines measure the electrical impedance of each coin you stick in to determine if you are actually inserting US currency and not iron slugs/foreign coins.
This might be correct if the dollar coin were a new thing, but dollar coins have been in circulation since the Carter administration. Vending machines that take the Susan B. Anthony dollar should also take the newer Sacagewea dollars and Presidential dollars, because they were manufactured to be electrically compatible. So any vending machine that has been updated since the 80s should accept dollar coins.
Besides bandwidth, LTE also has broadband-like latency. This is important for multiplayer gaming and real-time communication (i.e. skype, gtalk video chat).
Firefox and Chrome Mobile have the option to "request desktop mode". Unfortunately, a few sites seem to want to give you the mobile site anyway. Also, there is no option to make this a permanent setting. Opera Mobile has an option in the settings to change the user agent to desktop. This has worked every time for me and is much more convenient than requesting desktop mode every time.
Since I have been looking into these types of programs for a while, I'll give you what I have learned so far.
Groove IP only works if you have set your google voice account to forward calls to Google Talk. Groove IP then talks to Google Talk through jingle like you guessed. One caveat is that in order for it to work, you cannot be logged in to Google Talk from any other computer, otherwise the call will get sent to your computer's GTalk session. Most other VOIP apps use a third party pbx to achieve this which means if the third party decides to pull the service then you are SOL.
There are a couple of other programs that use the communication with GTalk, one is called Spare Phone. The Spare Phone app is cheaper than Groove IP, but it doesn't integrate with the native dialer like Groove does. Talkatone is another app that uses GTalk, but for all your calls go through their servers for some reason, so it is no better than the third party pbxes.
I have an Android phone, I look at the RSS feed for Slashdot in Google Reader but wish there was a URL handler to push the web page to my desktop screen when connected via wifi!
I do the same, and I use a couple of solutions for that. You can't really push something from your phone to an active tab, but you can sync stuff like stars or bookmarks over the cloud.
I typically "star" stuff in google reader if I think it sounds interesting and want to read it later at a computer. RSSOwl can sync with google reader (including whether an article is read or starred), so I use that on my computer. Also, if I am in the web browser and I find something that I want to read later I can use "share" with an app called Pocket. Pocket is basically a set of bookmarks in the cloud. You will need to install the Pocket add-on for your browser of choice. Then, whatever you "share" with Pocket becomes available at any of your other computers.
At one university I went to, students who were not ready for their midterms did the fire alarm pull. At a different university, it was anonymous bomb threats via payphone. Anyone got any other delaying tactics at institutions they attended?
No clothing manufacturers would sue another another manufacturer for copied designs because patents for clothing are not accepted. And yet the fashion industry doesn't seem to be standing still. Imagine that! Innovation without patents on look-and-feel in an industry that is all about look-and-feel!
You can already do this. Search the android market for groove ip. Unfortunately, groove ip isn't perfect, you may need to configure it if the sound quality is bad.
Ogg Vorbis lost to mp3 because for the longest time there was no fixed point implementation of an ogg vorbis decoder, while there was one for mp3. This made the hardware to decode ogg vorbis more expensive, and hence no one made one.
However, it might be complicated, because Samsung, HTC and others manufacture their devices i nthe same or similar shops.
HTC actually makes their phones in Taiwan. Since the manufacturing is in Taiwan, they pay the workers a decent level of wages and sweatshop like conditions are not legal.
So you are suggesting that people who get scalded more often have a higher incidence of cancer? Basically anyone who works in a kitchen should have higher rates of cancer than the general population, is that what you are suggesting?
If that were true then the US state of Hawaii would have more cancer than the US state of Washington. We find that is not the case. I have never heard anyone suggest that heat could contribute to cancer. If you look at the statistics at the CDC, there doesn't seem to be any correlation of colder climates to less cancers. Where are you getting your information?
As a current resident of Honolulu, I have to respond to some of this.
First taxes are not very high compared to mainland states. According to the Tax Foundation Hawaii has the 30th highest taxes in the nation (out of 50 obviously). http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/topic/24.html
Second, there are a lot of homeless in Hawaii. The primary cause of this is high home prices. A home in a "bad" neighborhood will cost $300k-600k, in a "good" neighborhood they go from $500k-$900k, and in the "rich" neighborhoods they are ridiculous. Unfortunately, we live on an island, so there is a limited amount of land. Couple that with regulations that prohibit apartment buildings in a lot of places because they would "ruin the view", and one economic downturn has the effect of generating a lot of homeless.
I hate to break it to you, but Siri (both the voice recognition part and the natural language processing part) isn't running on a phone. It's running on some clusters somewhere and the results are fed to a phone.
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It might have to do with the audio lag in the android sound system. Android uses something called audioflinger which had a very high latency. This became apparent to me when I tried running some emulators on my phone a year ago. Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean) seems to have fixed this issue http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WQcl4RDl5I
Vending machines that take the Susan B. Anthony dollar should also take the newer Sacagewea dollars and Presidential dollars, because they were manufactured to be electrically compatible.
I think you mean dimensionally, not electrically.
No, I mean electrically, as in vending machines measure the electrical impedance of each coin you stick in to determine if you are actually inserting US currency and not iron slugs/foreign coins.
This might be correct if the dollar coin were a new thing, but dollar coins have been in circulation since the Carter administration. Vending machines that take the Susan B. Anthony dollar should also take the newer Sacagewea dollars and Presidential dollars, because they were manufactured to be electrically compatible. So any vending machine that has been updated since the 80s should accept dollar coins.
Besides bandwidth, LTE also has broadband-like latency. This is important for multiplayer gaming and real-time communication (i.e. skype, gtalk video chat).
Firefox and Chrome Mobile have the option to "request desktop mode". Unfortunately, a few sites seem to want to give you the mobile site anyway. Also, there is no option to make this a permanent setting. Opera Mobile has an option in the settings to change the user agent to desktop. This has worked every time for me and is much more convenient than requesting desktop mode every time.
Since I have been looking into these types of programs for a while, I'll give you what I have learned so far.
Groove IP only works if you have set your google voice account to forward calls to Google Talk. Groove IP then talks to Google Talk through jingle like you guessed. One caveat is that in order for it to work, you cannot be logged in to Google Talk from any other computer, otherwise the call will get sent to your computer's GTalk session. Most other VOIP apps use a third party pbx to achieve this which means if the third party decides to pull the service then you are SOL.
There are a couple of other programs that use the communication with GTalk, one is called Spare Phone. The Spare Phone app is cheaper than Groove IP, but it doesn't integrate with the native dialer like Groove does. Talkatone is another app that uses GTalk, but for all your calls go through their servers for some reason, so it is no better than the third party pbxes.
For example, I don't recall them getting in such a huff over WebOS, because that actually had a unique approach and Apple had nothing to challenge.
You don't? Well I do.
http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/28/apple-vs-palm-the-in-depth-analysis/
You can do that if your phone's microUSB is an MHL port.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEb-DICYCgg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_High-Definition_Link
I have an Android phone, I look at the RSS feed for Slashdot in Google Reader but wish there was a URL handler to push the web page to my desktop screen when connected via wifi!
I do the same, and I use a couple of solutions for that. You can't really push something from your phone to an active tab, but you can sync stuff like stars or bookmarks over the cloud.
I typically "star" stuff in google reader if I think it sounds interesting and want to read it later at a computer. RSSOwl can sync with google reader (including whether an article is read or starred), so I use that on my computer. Also, if I am in the web browser and I find something that I want to read later I can use "share" with an app called Pocket. Pocket is basically a set of bookmarks in the cloud. You will need to install the Pocket add-on for your browser of choice. Then, whatever you "share" with Pocket becomes available at any of your other computers.
At one university I went to, students who were not ready for their midterms did the fire alarm pull. At a different university, it was anonymous bomb threats via payphone. Anyone got any other delaying tactics at institutions they attended?
I thought a third party created this audio watermarking stuff? According to the wikipedia the company that created Cinavia is called Verance.
Damn, I always thought fashion patents were non existent. Turns out they simply decided not to use them except in rare circumstances.
Also, women's preoccupation with shoes continues to baffle me.
No clothing manufacturers would sue another another manufacturer for copied designs because patents for clothing are not accepted. And yet the fashion industry doesn't seem to be standing still. Imagine that! Innovation without patents on look-and-feel in an industry that is all about look-and-feel!
I have a small correction. dB is a ratio of power, so it should be 2*48 or 96 dB.
You can already do this. Search the android market for groove ip. Unfortunately, groove ip isn't perfect, you may need to configure it if the sound quality is bad.
Ogg Vorbis lost to mp3 because for the longest time there was no fixed point implementation of an ogg vorbis decoder, while there was one for mp3. This made the hardware to decode ogg vorbis more expensive, and hence no one made one.
mp3 only goes up to 48kHz/16bit. So unless you can hear the frequencies between 22 and 24 kHz, the CD will be better.
HTC actually makes their phones in Taiwan. Since the manufacturing is in Taiwan, they pay the workers a decent level of wages and sweatshop like conditions are not legal.
So you are suggesting that people who get scalded more often have a higher incidence of cancer? Basically anyone who works in a kitchen should have higher rates of cancer than the general population, is that what you are suggesting?
If that were true then the US state of Hawaii would have more cancer than the US state of Washington. We find that is not the case. I have never heard anyone suggest that heat could contribute to cancer. If you look at the statistics at the CDC, there doesn't seem to be any correlation of colder climates to less cancers. Where are you getting your information?
Does this mean that heat causes cancer? We better get all those restaurant cooks in the kitchen some hazard pay!
That was sarcasm, btw. I don't think that heat causes cancer.
Look at what you have written: in radius and denarius the -ius -> -ii If -us became -ii then the plural of radius would be radiii.
As a current resident of Honolulu, I have to respond to some of this.
First taxes are not very high compared to mainland states. According to the Tax Foundation Hawaii has the 30th highest taxes in the nation (out of 50 obviously). http://www.taxfoundation.org/blog/topic/24.html
Second, there are a lot of homeless in Hawaii. The primary cause of this is high home prices. A home in a "bad" neighborhood will cost $300k-600k, in a "good" neighborhood they go from $500k-$900k, and in the "rich" neighborhoods they are ridiculous. Unfortunately, we live on an island, so there is a limited amount of land. Couple that with regulations that prohibit apartment buildings in a lot of places because they would "ruin the view", and one economic downturn has the effect of generating a lot of homeless.
It was 550,000/day in mid-July. http://www.dailytech.com/Google+Sets+Earnings+Record+Sees+550K+Android+Activations+Daily/article22164.htm
I hate to break it to you, but Siri (both the voice recognition part and the natural language processing part) isn't running on a phone. It's running on some clusters somewhere and the results are fed to a phone.