Your comment made me realize exactly why they are promoting WP7 the way they are.
"Designed to get you in and out and back to life." At first, I thought they were just attacking the current phone mentality of spending most of your day paying attention to your phone. Attacking and criticizing potential customers tends not to be a smart thing to do.
But now I see. They can't launch a phone that will match Android or iOS in terms of functionality or features when everyone else has such a head start. What they're trying to do is sell the lack of apps/functionality as a FEATURE, selling on the fact that you WON'T be spending a lot of time on a WP7 because there's not much to spend time on. If they can at least gain a foothold, they can slowly build on that and hopefully, someday, be a real competitor.
At first glance, that appears to be the best marketing angle available to them now, and it's not a bad one.
Think small steps.
The information being gathered by these researchers and others may eventually lead us to extremely reliable self-driving cars. But first, I believe you're going to see that information being used to develop crash-avoidance systems and technology that can handle highly random situations. Put that technology in vehicles and soon you could see an amazing drop in vehicular accidents.
Another interim step may be sections of freeway managed by smart systems to control/maintain traffic flow during high-volume time periods in a more controlled environment (limited entrance/exit points, no traffic lights or cross traffic). Traffic flow systems coupled with crash-avoidance could mean cars traveling at or near speed limits with a foot or so space between them. Combine that with navigation systems used to move cars or virtually connected fleets of cars heading to the same exit ramp and you now have a system able to move them into optimal lanes.
I think we'll eventually see self-driving cars, but there are still a lot of steps in between.
More than fifteen minute drive to town just to buy anything, what I found the worst about rural living was the internet. Even today my parents have the choice of satellite with very high latency, 3G with a 5GB monthly cap, or... dail-up. They can't even get DSL, and certainly not cable or fiber. I don't really want to go back to rural living, but I admit that I'd have far more disposable incoming without my $1100 a month rent (utilities not included.)
That really depends on where you live. My mother lives in rural southern Illinois on a farm. Closest town is 10 minutes away. Population 300. Closest town of any notable size is over 40 minutes away. She has had fiber DSL for two years now, at faster speeds than I have near Madison WI. And before fiber, her provider was using those "central office in a box" units attached to her house that still gave her faster speed than I had.
For the times when you *don't* need the keyboard. That's the beauty of it. If you don't need the keyboard, it stays at home and you are carrying around a much smaller and lighter piece of tech.
I am truly amazed at how quickly the iPad has caught on. I saw three within two rows of me on a flight out to CA and at church last Saturday, the couple next to me pulled out their own individual iPads to follow along with the scripture and to take notes.
Wow. QNA...that brings back memories! Student-run station at the-then CAVC, ran by Jim Grimes. I did some DJ'ing there back in '84 for a semester.
Still 250 watts, eh?
There are many variables that determine how successful someone is in taking a shot. I could see a game having a simple database with records for each AI character. It could hold values ranging from the very basic and universal (avg # hours this character spends in target practice/week, how much sleep did they get last night, how long have they been awake, etc.) to more "fringe" variables (excessive coffee drinker, drug user, hangover from last night, laser-targeted sights in use, etc.). All of those could count toward their base accuracy/reaction time.
Add into that more variables based upon the current situation. There was a spy RPG many years ago (can't remember the name)that took into account how you were positioned when you took the shot. Your accuracy started at a base number and then dropped as you went from prone to kneeling to standing to running. +acc for steadying yourself against a structure was also a factor.
From there you could get use the db to get into the "personalities" of each AI opponent. A coffee drinker who didn't get his cup that morning might be in a nastier mood and walk over and shoot you in the face once your down. A timid variable might mean a bot who hides behind a wall waiting until you pass to put a bullet through your head than one who runs out of a darkened doorway, guns blazing. Ammo count and readily available supplies could also be taken into account.
WarDriving = Driving around finding open APs.
"WarCloning" = Driving around cloning RFID stuff.
"WarClowning" = Driving around finding clowns to see how many you can fit in your car at one time.
That requires two Zunes getting close enough to transfer the virus. What's the likelihood of that? And then getting close to other Zunes for this to spread as much as it has?
Why assume it was only showing incarnations of the Doctor? It was a mind battle between Morbius and the Doctor. The most-accepted explanation at the time (going by early 80's Dr. Who conventions) was that the unknown faces were those of Morbius's previous regenerations.
I'm sure they were picked young so Paramount could have them on hand for decades of movies (barring accidental/intentional death). Paramount probably locked them into life-long, soul-selling contracts so they are obligated to resume these roles for as long as they breathe, or until they can digitize the whole crew and convincingly animate them until our sun dies.
NOw, during the call, it may be unlocked (haven't tried) since you can do other things while on a call (and it puts up that "tap to return to call" banner), so that may be an entry point.
Just tried this. No, it's not. If you answer a locked phone, pressing the Home button brings you to the passcode entry screen. You also get the passcode entry screen if you try to view Contacts from the in-call screen.
It could be argued that technology has replaced most of the need for basic-skills crewmen and that, indeed, all or most of the crew are officers.
Administrative crew = AI computers.
Engineering crew = self-correcting mechanics(to a point)
Janitorial staff = clean up your own damn mess! (built-in self-cleaning surfaces or filtration systems)
And if the company had a decent Usability expert or staff, they would have revealed the need/want or lack thereof of the application before too many resources were invested.
Where I work, the Usability department is under IT, and there are rumors that some major layoffs are coming. Being in the midwest, Usability jobs aren't nearly as plentiful as on the coasts, so I'm getting into that high-anxiety mode.
This is a very good point. I think it was around the '90s I noticed more and more classrooms allowing the use of calculators in the classrooms. As calculators and computers became more prevalent, did the need for tests to demonstrate student's skills in solving equations diminish? If it's far easier and quicker to use readily available tools to "do the math", should we be teaching students to do it the same way its always been taught? Like the poster above, I'd love to see if the tests nowadays do more to test the use and application of tools than the actual computation.
USA, Class of '85
Most computer hardware is sold at surplus auctions four times a year in Illinois. I worked for Illinois government as a contractor for 9 years and saw countless pallets of PCs and Macs move through there. Lots of other cool stuff too, including a powered drafting table I picked up for $75. I locked the table flat and can raise and lower it depending if I want to work standing up or sitting down.
Right. Do this and you'll waste several years in a tiny cell while lab techs spend the time looking for steganographic messages in those fluffy kitten pics.
I wouldn't want to block the Charter interceptions so much as log them, then take Charter to court demanding payment for advertising via my site.
1. Create ad placeholders on my site that aren't really ads, but look like them to Charter's system.
2. Create outrageous price structure for ads.
3. Log all instances of interception.
4. Bill Charter.
5. ???
6. PROFIT!!!
(Now I just need to get that down to 3 steps - everyone knows you have to profit by step 3)
You are depriving the game studio of the compensation for that PC game. Yes, thousands of others ponied up the cash to buy the game, but why should it be them and not you who helps pay for the work that went into producing that title?
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I programmed an Atari 800, so neener!
Your comment made me realize exactly why they are promoting WP7 the way they are.
"Designed to get you in and out and back to life." At first, I thought they were just attacking the current phone mentality of spending most of your day paying attention to your phone. Attacking and criticizing potential customers tends not to be a smart thing to do.
But now I see. They can't launch a phone that will match Android or iOS in terms of functionality or features when everyone else has such a head start. What they're trying to do is sell the lack of apps/functionality as a FEATURE, selling on the fact that you WON'T be spending a lot of time on a WP7 because there's not much to spend time on. If they can at least gain a foothold, they can slowly build on that and hopefully, someday, be a real competitor.
At first glance, that appears to be the best marketing angle available to them now, and it's not a bad one.
Think small steps. The information being gathered by these researchers and others may eventually lead us to extremely reliable self-driving cars. But first, I believe you're going to see that information being used to develop crash-avoidance systems and technology that can handle highly random situations. Put that technology in vehicles and soon you could see an amazing drop in vehicular accidents. Another interim step may be sections of freeway managed by smart systems to control/maintain traffic flow during high-volume time periods in a more controlled environment (limited entrance/exit points, no traffic lights or cross traffic). Traffic flow systems coupled with crash-avoidance could mean cars traveling at or near speed limits with a foot or so space between them. Combine that with navigation systems used to move cars or virtually connected fleets of cars heading to the same exit ramp and you now have a system able to move them into optimal lanes. I think we'll eventually see self-driving cars, but there are still a lot of steps in between.
More than fifteen minute drive to town just to buy anything, what I found the worst about rural living was the internet. Even today my parents have the choice of satellite with very high latency, 3G with a 5GB monthly cap, or ... dail-up. They can't even get DSL, and certainly not cable or fiber. I don't really want to go back to rural living, but I admit that I'd have far more disposable incoming without my $1100 a month rent (utilities not included.)
That really depends on where you live. My mother lives in rural southern Illinois on a farm. Closest town is 10 minutes away. Population 300. Closest town of any notable size is over 40 minutes away. She has had fiber DSL for two years now, at faster speeds than I have near Madison WI. And before fiber, her provider was using those "central office in a box" units attached to her house that still gave her faster speed than I had.
For the times when you *don't* need the keyboard. That's the beauty of it. If you don't need the keyboard, it stays at home and you are carrying around a much smaller and lighter piece of tech. I am truly amazed at how quickly the iPad has caught on. I saw three within two rows of me on a flight out to CA and at church last Saturday, the couple next to me pulled out their own individual iPads to follow along with the scripture and to take notes.
Wow. QNA...that brings back memories! Student-run station at the-then CAVC, ran by Jim Grimes. I did some DJ'ing there back in '84 for a semester. Still 250 watts, eh?
There are many variables that determine how successful someone is in taking a shot. I could see a game having a simple database with records for each AI character. It could hold values ranging from the very basic and universal (avg # hours this character spends in target practice/week, how much sleep did they get last night, how long have they been awake, etc.) to more "fringe" variables (excessive coffee drinker, drug user, hangover from last night, laser-targeted sights in use, etc.). All of those could count toward their base accuracy/reaction time.
Add into that more variables based upon the current situation. There was a spy RPG many years ago (can't remember the name)that took into account how you were positioned when you took the shot. Your accuracy started at a base number and then dropped as you went from prone to kneeling to standing to running. +acc for steadying yourself against a structure was also a factor.
From there you could get use the db to get into the "personalities" of each AI opponent. A coffee drinker who didn't get his cup that morning might be in a nastier mood and walk over and shoot you in the face once your down. A timid variable might mean a bot who hides behind a wall waiting until you pass to put a bullet through your head than one who runs out of a darkened doorway, guns blazing. Ammo count and readily available supplies could also be taken into account.
And Plex is a Mac port of XBMC. It's really sweet on a Mac mini.
I am intrigued by your ideas and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
How much more of a nerd were you if you ONLY had Oscar (I had forgotten about the exploding briefcase)? *raises hand*
WarDriving = Driving around finding open APs. "WarCloning" = Driving around cloning RFID stuff. "WarClowning" = Driving around finding clowns to see how many you can fit in your car at one time.
Wrong Quark.
That requires two Zunes getting close enough to transfer the virus. What's the likelihood of that? And then getting close to other Zunes for this to spread as much as it has?
Hrm.
Why assume it was only showing incarnations of the Doctor? It was a mind battle between Morbius and the Doctor. The most-accepted explanation at the time (going by early 80's Dr. Who conventions) was that the unknown faces were those of Morbius's previous regenerations.
I'm sure they were picked young so Paramount could have them on hand for decades of movies (barring accidental/intentional death). Paramount probably locked them into life-long, soul-selling contracts so they are obligated to resume these roles for as long as they breathe, or until they can digitize the whole crew and convincingly animate them until our sun dies.
Or, you could call Brett Farve the Berke Breathed of football quarterbacks.
NOw, during the call, it may be unlocked (haven't tried) since you can do other things while on a call (and it puts up that "tap to return to call" banner), so that may be an entry point.
Just tried this. No, it's not. If you answer a locked phone, pressing the Home button brings you to the passcode entry screen. You also get the passcode entry screen if you try to view Contacts from the in-call screen.
It could be argued that technology has replaced most of the need for basic-skills crewmen and that, indeed, all or most of the crew are officers.
Administrative crew = AI computers.
Engineering crew = self-correcting mechanics(to a point)
Janitorial staff = clean up your own damn mess! (built-in self-cleaning surfaces or filtration systems)
And if the company had a decent Usability expert or staff, they would have revealed the need/want or lack thereof of the application before too many resources were invested. Where I work, the Usability department is under IT, and there are rumors that some major layoffs are coming. Being in the midwest, Usability jobs aren't nearly as plentiful as on the coasts, so I'm getting into that high-anxiety mode.
This is a very good point. I think it was around the '90s I noticed more and more classrooms allowing the use of calculators in the classrooms. As calculators and computers became more prevalent, did the need for tests to demonstrate student's skills in solving equations diminish? If it's far easier and quicker to use readily available tools to "do the math", should we be teaching students to do it the same way its always been taught? Like the poster above, I'd love to see if the tests nowadays do more to test the use and application of tools than the actual computation. USA, Class of '85
Most computer hardware is sold at surplus auctions four times a year in Illinois. I worked for Illinois government as a contractor for 9 years and saw countless pallets of PCs and Macs move through there. Lots of other cool stuff too, including a powered drafting table I picked up for $75. I locked the table flat and can raise and lower it depending if I want to work standing up or sitting down.
Right. Do this and you'll waste several years in a tiny cell while lab techs spend the time looking for steganographic messages in those fluffy kitten pics.
I wouldn't want to block the Charter interceptions so much as log them, then take Charter to court demanding payment for advertising via my site.
1. Create ad placeholders on my site that aren't really ads, but look like them to Charter's system.
2. Create outrageous price structure for ads.
3. Log all instances of interception.
4. Bill Charter.
5. ???
6. PROFIT!!!
(Now I just need to get that down to 3 steps - everyone knows you have to profit by step 3)
You are depriving the game studio of the compensation for that PC game. Yes, thousands of others ponied up the cash to buy the game, but why should it be them and not you who helps pay for the work that went into producing that title?
Would his middle name be Foster? And does he want to give them technology-based sleds?