Okay, pleasure has already been covered in some posts as a possible application for this. What about intense pain?...Does Nokia have Orwellian aspirations for this patent?
First of all, not all free apps are adware. That's because some app developers (myself included) write apps for the fun of it. Also another factor: commercial apps tend to display lots of glitzy colors, graphics and animation. Turned-off (black) pixels don't drain the battery. Don't get me wrong, I've seen free apps that light up the entire display too. Free or not, what matters is whether the developer is conscious of saving the battery when designing the app. As an example, I use an app called Easy Battery Saver on my Galaxy Nexus to monitor batter usage...It reports that my display accounts for about 30% of my total battery consumption.
Java is very much alive and thriving on web/enterprise application servers and on mobile devices. What do you think Android apps developers program with? What about sites that make use of JSPs, struts and spring? Here's a partial list of sites built by struts:
http://wiki.apache.org/struts/PoweredBy
How about the number of times I visit and minutes I spend reading/posting to slash.dot each day/week/:P
Fourteen years ago, I worked for a company (which was long since partitioned and spun-off) that tracked personal web usage to the extent that each employee and his/her manager was sent an email detailing weekly web usage: url of each site visited, amount of data downloaded from each site, and the employee's over-all bandwidth usage for the week compared to everyone else in the company. The manager of my department didn't care and my neighbor usually ranked in the top 50 out of 2000 and was proud of it XD
I haven't read the article but I'm surmising that it won't be cost effective unless they can come up with a cheap way to get these "squads of disposable satellites" into orbit. At least they burn on re-entry, so they won't contribute to the space-junk problem.
LOL. Yes, and I'm confused, too. I thought Jebuz and the dinosours were supposed to coexist in the same time period, around two thousand years after earth and the universe were all created.
Agreed. What good is non-caffeine coffee? I know of no one who actually drinks coffee just for the taste of it...even gourmet and flavored coffees. Maybe de-caff coffee is for people who can't drink coffee (due to religion or medical reasons) but want to "fit in" to crowds that do break-room or hallway gossip...I'm conjecturing.
If the refers to the first 40 days of the Obama administration, isn't the pre-existing equipment and network setup a reflection on the Bush administration's blunt edge grasp of technology?
Although this is nice, I'm not sure why anyone would want to do it. Its easy enough already to side-load the app onto a device through the USB. Also, Eclipse + the Android SDK is portable enough to run on several powerful desktop operating systems...I've developed Android apps on Ubuntu and Windows Vista easily enough. Most android programmers and many Java programmers develop through Eclipse so, that is what they are comfortable with...Why learn a new IDE?
You are assuming the authorities would do anything about it. At least here in the states, the police don't respond seriously to reports of stolen electronics tracked with consumer tracking software.
There are apps that allow you to locate your phone by logging in from any computer. I tried the free app LookOut and was amazed it could pinpoint my phone's location to a single unit of an apartment building (not accounting for floors). You can also remotely set off a very loud 'siren' on the phone. Paying customers can remotely wipe their smartphone clean.
Having your own religious beliefs is one thing but trying to promote those beliefs openly to others in the workplace can be disruptive to day-to-day operations. Many places (including where I work) have written guidelines, strongly discouraging such behavior.
Too bad the books are specifically tied to a particular device, not non-physical data that can be transfered and gain a new life...
What books are you talking about? Amazon eBooks are tied to your Amazon account, not a device. I have dozens of e-books from Amazon's Kindle store that I have downloaded and can read at any time on my Kindle Fire, my work PC, my home iPad and my work iPad. The great thing is it auto-syncs between them so whatever page I was on most recently on one device becomes the page I pick up on the next device. I have only a couple Apple iBook purchases, but they work the same way (minus the PC or Kindle reader clients).
What eBook store ties purchases to the device?
I'm sure what he means is, the books are tied only to devices that support Kindle software. Try reading Amazon eBooks on a Nook or other non-Amazon dedicated e-reader device. Try reading it on a linux desktop platform. Thus, the format is not truly portable. I have a Kindle dedicated e-reader and my solution is to remove the Amazon DRM with special software so I can convert it to other formats (like Lit or ePub) for other devices.
Apparently, Sea Monkeys are not as genetically engineered or selectively bread as advertisements in comic books lead me to believe. I expected to see a little civilization of humanoid "sea people" dancing around, smiling and frolicking just like in the pictures. Instead, I got brine shrimp. WTF?
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Okay, pleasure has already been covered in some posts as a possible application for this. What about intense pain?...Does Nokia have Orwellian aspirations for this patent?
A modern science canary for the coal mines.
First of all, not all free apps are adware. That's because some app developers (myself included) write apps for the fun of it. Also another factor: commercial apps tend to display lots of glitzy colors, graphics and animation. Turned-off (black) pixels don't drain the battery. Don't get me wrong, I've seen free apps that light up the entire display too. Free or not, what matters is whether the developer is conscious of saving the battery when designing the app. As an example, I use an app called Easy Battery Saver on my Galaxy Nexus to monitor batter usage...It reports that my display accounts for about 30% of my total battery consumption.
The ribbon is a nice UI that really isn't very different than the old UI.
Sorry but I found the ribbon tedious and confusing but maybe that's because I'm an infrequent MS Office user.
There's only 168 hours in a week. If you could somehow redefine a week to be longer than 7 days...then you'd have your 180 hour work week.
Java is very much alive and thriving on web/enterprise application servers and on mobile devices. What do you think Android apps developers program with? What about sites that make use of JSPs, struts and spring? Here's a partial list of sites built by struts: http://wiki.apache.org/struts/PoweredBy
How about the number of times I visit and minutes I spend reading/posting to slash.dot each day/week/ :P
Fourteen years ago, I worked for a company (which was long since partitioned and spun-off) that tracked personal web usage to the extent that each employee and his/her manager was sent an email detailing weekly web usage: url of each site visited, amount of data downloaded from each site, and the employee's over-all bandwidth usage for the week compared to everyone else in the company. The manager of my department didn't care and my neighbor usually ranked in the top 50 out of 2000 and was proud of it XD
I haven't read the article but I'm surmising that it won't be cost effective unless they can come up with a cheap way to get these "squads of disposable satellites" into orbit. At least they burn on re-entry, so they won't contribute to the space-junk problem.
Yes, but does it give me a good high compared to other species of frogs I can lick?
LOL. Yes, and I'm confused, too. I thought Jebuz and the dinosours were supposed to coexist in the same time period, around two thousand years after earth and the universe were all created.
Agreed. What good is non-caffeine coffee? I know of no one who actually drinks coffee just for the taste of it...even gourmet and flavored coffees. Maybe de-caff coffee is for people who can't drink coffee (due to religion or medical reasons) but want to "fit in" to crowds that do break-room or hallway gossip...I'm conjecturing.
If the refers to the first 40 days of the Obama administration, isn't the pre-existing equipment and network setup a reflection on the Bush administration's blunt edge grasp of technology?
Although this is nice, I'm not sure why anyone would want to do it. Its easy enough already to side-load the app onto a device through the USB. Also, Eclipse + the Android SDK is portable enough to run on several powerful desktop operating systems...I've developed Android apps on Ubuntu and Windows Vista easily enough. Most android programmers and many Java programmers develop through Eclipse so, that is what they are comfortable with...Why learn a new IDE?
The pharma companies make huge profits.
I do the same thing...a lock screen with my email address on it.
You are assuming the authorities would do anything about it. At least here in the states, the police don't respond seriously to reports of stolen electronics tracked with consumer tracking software.
There are apps that allow you to locate your phone by logging in from any computer. I tried the free app LookOut and was amazed it could pinpoint my phone's location to a single unit of an apartment building (not accounting for floors). You can also remotely set off a very loud 'siren' on the phone. Paying customers can remotely wipe their smartphone clean.
Having your own religious beliefs is one thing but trying to promote those beliefs openly to others in the workplace can be disruptive to day-to-day operations. Many places (including where I work) have written guidelines, strongly discouraging such behavior.
As far as the fanboyz are concerned, the name is I-pad MUST-HAVE.
Any word on the battery life of this thing?
Too bad the books are specifically tied to a particular device, not non-physical data that can be transfered and gain a new life...
What books are you talking about? Amazon eBooks are tied to your Amazon account, not a device. I have dozens of e-books from Amazon's Kindle store that I have downloaded and can read at any time on my Kindle Fire, my work PC, my home iPad and my work iPad. The great thing is it auto-syncs between them so whatever page I was on most recently on one device becomes the page I pick up on the next device. I have only a couple Apple iBook purchases, but they work the same way (minus the PC or Kindle reader clients).
What eBook store ties purchases to the device?
I'm sure what he means is, the books are tied only to devices that support Kindle software. Try reading Amazon eBooks on a Nook or other non-Amazon dedicated e-reader device. Try reading it on a linux desktop platform. Thus, the format is not truly portable. I have a Kindle dedicated e-reader and my solution is to remove the Amazon DRM with special software so I can convert it to other formats (like Lit or ePub) for other devices.
Nice but, I'll be even more impressed the day we learn how to regrow limbs.
So is this another tool the insurance companies could potentially use for genetic profiling...and at no additional cost to them? :/
I'm surprised there was no reference to the movie "Minority Report" in the original post.
Apparently, Sea Monkeys are not as genetically engineered or selectively bread as advertisements in comic books lead me to believe. I expected to see a little civilization of humanoid "sea people" dancing around, smiling and frolicking just like in the pictures. Instead, I got brine shrimp. WTF?