That well documented reason is only an issue if you have your device try to join any open WiFi network. Why that is even an option is beyond me, but leaving WiFi on is not itself a problem.
Assisted Living can be very expensive and technology can help solve some of these problems. My father has memory problems and might forget to take his medication or leave the range top on. I wrote a simple android app and put NFC stickers on his pill box. Each morning and night he uses a nexus 7 that I got him to scan the NFC tag which marks in a DB that I run that he has taken his meds. If by a certain time the DB hasn't been updated I get a notification my my phone to call my dad and check in. My dad enjoys being in the home that he and my mother built 30 years ago and he still gets out with friends. I wish I had a way to see that he left the range top on so I could help him stay even more safe, but for now and hopefully for the next few years assisted living would be a costly and unneeded situation for my father.
AT&T has a FTTH set up in my sister-in-laws apartment and they still max out at 24Mbps (she did get an email that they will be offering 45 Mbps service "soon".) Their might not be a technical reason AT&T couldn't offer >100Mbps service, but they seem to like to standardize their offerings and limit bandwidth.
It would be suprising if this didn't happen. the API for 3rd party aps is still in beta and to sign up for the dev program right now tell you this sdk is for dev purposes right now and not production use.. ( https://developers.google.com/cast/downloads/ ) Eventually I expect the ability to cast content from my android devices, but for right now Google has been very clear to devs the state the cast is in right now.
Just a fun link between your primary idea and your statement:
Jobs just would have come up with some magical version of that which would delighted and surprised us with its simplicity. Perhaps that's where siri was going.
Apple purchased siri from SRI International, which is who Eberhart worked for.
Naturally the RAW data from a GPS module will be very noisy and good software/firmware needs to be written to overcome the horrible SNR that will be present. However the issue that the Fermion was referring to, that google maps has led him astray, is more than likely an issue with the map data and not the GPS location calculated by the module. (with the notable exception of being in a place like NYC.)
Normally GPS issues that people face aren't problems with the GPS but rather with the mapping data used. The GPS is giving good data, but the maps are out of date or incorrect and lead you the wrong way. Notable exceptions to this would be in places like New York, where the large buildings cause multipath issues and the GPS module doesn't have good data.
I agree a PIN system that is all numbers has significant problems. (neither I or my wife use the PIN on our phones, but I enabled it to see how android dealt with repeated attemps.) http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/september32012/ gets to the problem that people are bad at picking secure PINs (especially a 4-digit PIN.) This device has value however because a great many people who will enable a PIN will choose a 4 digit PIN.
Both my nexus 4 and my wife's note 2 lock me out for 30 seconds after 5 incorrect guesses. After the time out I am free to make 5 more guesses before I hit another 30 second delay. So android users who use PINs to lock their phone do seem to be vulnerable to this brute-force attack.
Seems easy enough for google to fix, double the timeout each time, maybe even have the option of having the phone email you with its location and a time stamp after 15 incorrect guesses.
There is *nothing* out there even remotely close to the quality of regular XBMC.
While I agree XBMC is the way to go, Plex should be in the conversation, and in some cases might be a better fit than XBMC. Support for iOS, Android, and Roku. With reasonably good scrappers, and a free service to essentially do DDNS for remote viewing, it is a quality product that is competitive with XBMC
He doesn't often have to run against another republican in the primaries. In most places in Texas the primary is the real election. He was born in the general area of his district and has lived in it most of his life, other republicans that have political aspirations have other low hanging fruit that they can pick from. I have the pleasure of voting against his re-election every 2 years.
my son is almost 4 and he sounds a lot like your son. I was never a big comic book reader, but I was disappointed when I went to a local comic book store that there was almost nothing I would let him read right now. We did however find a series of short storied at barns an noble all about super heroes. The web site on the back is marvelkids.com I know that DC comics also has a similar series because we have some batman books upstairs. He loves them and I read him at least one story from the series each day. The stories are not episodic like most comic books.
That is part of the beauty of arduino, it is geared towards getting involved with things like micros but you don't have to start off fully understanding concepts that aren't normally taught until first and second year of an EE degree. Once you get the hang of programming and understand what can be done with a micro the arduino can be programmed in C or ASM. It is ideally suited to teach kids programming and get the interested in "REAL" programming.
To quote from the arduino homepage:
"Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments."
It isn't meant to be a serious hardware design platform. It is a great prototyping tool and tool for introducing popular to programming and the world of micros. When I was doing my undergrad in EE I used an arduino to prototype what I wanted to do and moved on to an MPS430 for the real thing (stereoscopic vision for a robotic platform.)
I second Lego Mindstorms (with RobotC) that has been mentioned earlier, or if that is a bit too pricey look into an arduino. There is nothing quite like doing something in the real world with your computer program to make programming more fun.
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I always learned the Brian Regan rule: ""I before E, except after C, and when sounded as A as in neighbor and weight, and weekends, and holidays, and all throughout May, because you'll always be wrong no matter what you say."
from what I have read on netflix they allow the number of streams equal to the number of DVDs you pay for. Not sure what they have done for the streaming only plan.
To go along with this, YaST package management was horrifically slow near the end of the 10.X series. With all the work done on zypper, package management has improved a ton. Their is still work to be done, but it isn't something that is too slow to use like it once was.
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That well documented reason is only an issue if you have your device try to join any open WiFi network. Why that is even an option is beyond me, but leaving WiFi on is not itself a problem.
Assisted Living can be very expensive and technology can help solve some of these problems. My father has memory problems and might forget to take his medication or leave the range top on. I wrote a simple android app and put NFC stickers on his pill box. Each morning and night he uses a nexus 7 that I got him to scan the NFC tag which marks in a DB that I run that he has taken his meds. If by a certain time the DB hasn't been updated I get a notification my my phone to call my dad and check in. My dad enjoys being in the home that he and my mother built 30 years ago and he still gets out with friends. I wish I had a way to see that he left the range top on so I could help him stay even more safe, but for now and hopefully for the next few years assisted living would be a costly and unneeded situation for my father.
AT&T has a FTTH set up in my sister-in-laws apartment and they still max out at 24Mbps (she did get an email that they will be offering 45 Mbps service "soon".) Their might not be a technical reason AT&T couldn't offer >100Mbps service, but they seem to like to standardize their offerings and limit bandwidth.
I would be willing to pay a premium to travel by modern rail if it meant not dealing with: 1) the TSA and 2)seats designed for a person 5'4" 98 lbs
OBDII see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-board_diagnostics#OBD-II also http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=OBDII It has been done and is amazingly useful
I agree with this fully. openSUSE does KDE better than any other distro I have tried.
Very useful story, and it makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the link. Wish I had mod points.
Froyo is slang for Frozen Yogurt
It would be suprising if this didn't happen. the API for 3rd party aps is still in beta and to sign up for the dev program right now tell you this sdk is for dev purposes right now and not production use.. ( https://developers.google.com/cast/downloads/ ) Eventually I expect the ability to cast content from my android devices, but for right now Google has been very clear to devs the state the cast is in right now.
In what way was I trolling? It is a fact that Doug Engelbart worked for SRI ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Engelbart#SRI_and_the_Augmentation_Research_Center ) and that Siri was originally created by SRI ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siri_(software) ) I don't necessarily agree with the original comment, but it was interesting to see his connection between Jobs and 2 things that came from SRI ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRI_International ).
Jobs just would have come up with some magical version of that which would delighted and surprised us with its simplicity. Perhaps that's where siri was going.
Apple purchased siri from SRI International, which is who Eberhart worked for.
Naturally the RAW data from a GPS module will be very noisy and good software/firmware needs to be written to overcome the horrible SNR that will be present. However the issue that the Fermion was referring to, that google maps has led him astray, is more than likely an issue with the map data and not the GPS location calculated by the module. (with the notable exception of being in a place like NYC.)
Normally GPS issues that people face aren't problems with the GPS but rather with the mapping data used. The GPS is giving good data, but the maps are out of date or incorrect and lead you the wrong way. Notable exceptions to this would be in places like New York, where the large buildings cause multipath issues and the GPS module doesn't have good data.
I agree a PIN system that is all numbers has significant problems. (neither I or my wife use the PIN on our phones, but I enabled it to see how android dealt with repeated attemps.) http://www.datagenetics.com/blog/september32012/ gets to the problem that people are bad at picking secure PINs (especially a 4-digit PIN.) This device has value however because a great many people who will enable a PIN will choose a 4 digit PIN.
Both my nexus 4 and my wife's note 2 lock me out for 30 seconds after 5 incorrect guesses. After the time out I am free to make 5 more guesses before I hit another 30 second delay. So android users who use PINs to lock their phone do seem to be vulnerable to this brute-force attack. Seems easy enough for google to fix, double the timeout each time, maybe even have the option of having the phone email you with its location and a time stamp after 15 incorrect guesses.
There is *nothing* out there even remotely close to the quality of regular XBMC.
While I agree XBMC is the way to go, Plex should be in the conversation, and in some cases might be a better fit than XBMC. Support for iOS, Android, and Roku. With reasonably good scrappers, and a free service to essentially do DDNS for remote viewing, it is a quality product that is competitive with XBMC
not by default but google apps for business does have the ability: http://www.google.com/enterprise/apps/business/benefits.html [Stay connected from anywhere>On your Android] google apps I would say is comparable to iCloud
He doesn't often have to run against another republican in the primaries. In most places in Texas the primary is the real election. He was born in the general area of his district and has lived in it most of his life, other republicans that have political aspirations have other low hanging fruit that they can pick from. I have the pleasure of voting against his re-election every 2 years.
my son is almost 4 and he sounds a lot like your son. I was never a big comic book reader, but I was disappointed when I went to a local comic book store that there was almost nothing I would let him read right now. We did however find a series of short storied at barns an noble all about super heroes. The web site on the back is marvelkids.com I know that DC comics also has a similar series because we have some batman books upstairs. He loves them and I read him at least one story from the series each day. The stories are not episodic like most comic books.
That is part of the beauty of arduino, it is geared towards getting involved with things like micros but you don't have to start off fully understanding concepts that aren't normally taught until first and second year of an EE degree. Once you get the hang of programming and understand what can be done with a micro the arduino can be programmed in C or ASM. It is ideally suited to teach kids programming and get the interested in "REAL" programming. To quote from the arduino homepage: "Arduino is an open-source electronics prototyping platform based on flexible, easy-to-use hardware and software. It's intended for artists, designers, hobbyists, and anyone interested in creating interactive objects or environments." It isn't meant to be a serious hardware design platform. It is a great prototyping tool and tool for introducing popular to programming and the world of micros. When I was doing my undergrad in EE I used an arduino to prototype what I wanted to do and moved on to an MPS430 for the real thing (stereoscopic vision for a robotic platform.)
I second Lego Mindstorms (with RobotC) that has been mentioned earlier, or if that is a bit too pricey look into an arduino. There is nothing quite like doing something in the real world with your computer program to make programming more fun.
I always learned the Brian Regan rule: ""I before E, except after C, and when sounded as A as in neighbor and weight, and weekends, and holidays, and all throughout May, because you'll always be wrong no matter what you say."
http://www.netflix.com/FAQ?p_faqid=2902 they give you up to 4 streams depending on your plan
from what I have read on netflix they allow the number of streams equal to the number of DVDs you pay for. Not sure what they have done for the streaming only plan.
To go along with this, YaST package management was horrifically slow near the end of the 10.X series. With all the work done on zypper, package management has improved a ton. Their is still work to be done, but it isn't something that is too slow to use like it once was.