But you get the satisfaction of knowing that the first $1.50 of their (now clearly labeled) profit margin is on THEM. That will show em.
The nice thing is that the settlement will just strengthen the convictions of the Anti-Ticketmaster crowd, and we might see more people calling for real change, not the 6 quarters per ticket this lawsuit netted.
I can understand developers would like this, since the android emulator in the SDK is slower than molasses in (northern) December.
I suppose ICS would not be an issue to get on this for the future.
But $200 seems a little steep since a real tablet can be purchased for that price range (although with perhaps with less CPU/RAM). $50-$100 would probably be the sweet point.
It appears that this is not to be thought of as some sort of substitute phone (or other mobile device) but a way to take the effort into mobile development (Angry Birds, ultra low power graphics, etc.) and plaster it on a big screen. $200 might be a little steep for a set-side box (as we can see with the trouble Google TV and Apple TV have had) but if the price comes down or if there is a particularly killer app (portability is already a wow factor) then this might be a popular little gadget. I can picture a streamlined version (skip BT, right size the CPU/GPU) and you could have a highly portable media player that can be remotely controlled via a smartphone app. It would be nice to have a highly portable content streamer that was like a smartphone but wasnt actually a smartphone (having to stop your movie to take a call is a deal breaker.)
So shortly after all of the major carriers dropped the even slightly reasonable SMS plans, people started using the hacky but free alternatives? What a shocker. This seems like a classic example of what happens when you price yourself right out of the market.
If you want to see Price Discrimination at work, check out the prices on Mobile Virtual Network Operators (companies that buy access to Verizon, ATT, Sprint, etc. in bulk and resell it via subscription or prepaid contracts.) MVNO carriers offer basically the exact same coverage footprint, you can use the exact same set of handsets (but without a contract, the prices are obviously much different) and yet a MVNO will charge you at least *half*, if not less, for the exact same number of minutes, text messages, and data. Why more people don't use them instead of continuing to be extorted by the big carriers is beyond explanation. If gas cost half as much but you had to pump it yourself (oh, wait) how many people would ever go to full-serve filling stations?
So, you want to reward Wally? He probably doesn't introduce much bugs...
If his projects are rated as satisfactory by management (this "metric" ALWAYS comes first, no matter what the development style is) then sure. Sometimes the zen of knowing what not to do is more effective than having the energy to code 10,000 lines of something that is buggy and ultimately unneeded.
Whatever you measure will be gamed. Measure bugs fixed, and you will find people wasting time listing each tiny variation of a bug. Measure lines of code, you will get spaghetti code.
It almost seems better to measure a bunch of things and use a secret formula to determine productivity.
A secret formula like, oh I dunno, customer satisfaction (maybe "how many bugs make it to the customer")? Every piece of software is written for a customer (of some sort) so maybe time could be spent actually thinking about how effective the code is AFTER it's used. Speaking as someone who doesn't write much code, but lives and breathes the consequences of good and bad code every day, I can say with confidence that quality would go up if the only coding "practice" was severe punishment of anyone who introduced/propagated/failed to eliminate bugs in the code they were responsible for.
The ad I see at the top of the page is for Fossil watches.;-)
Mother******* Adsense spots, how do they work?
(in other words, in order to read an article about a fancy watch and NOT seen an ad for a watch or watch-related service, you would need to be living in 1998.)
Actually, if you read the university press release, you'll see the magical ingredient is silicon. Current lithium-ion batteries already contain graphene sheets. What they did was
sandwich silicon between the graphene sheets, because silicon can bind many more ions than carbon (the downside is that it fragments, and that's what they addressed with their sandwiching process) -> more capacity
make minuscule holes in the graphene sheets to offer shortcuts to ions traveling from one side of the sheet to the other side (-> faster charging)
That's not quite the whole story: current lithium-ion battery designs have *graphite* in them, which is a bit disingenuous to describe merely as "many layers of graphene". The fact that in this design, they are in discrete multiple layers (with silicon and, as a result of this research, perforations) is what makes the difference. To my knowledge (correct me if I am wrong) no commercial battery has discrete graphene layers in it (graphene is a relatively new area of research, circa 2004, and conventional li-ion battery design has been relatively unchanged for about 20 years.)
"CarrierIQ is confirmed to be found on the iPhone or on feature phones, but Trevor has found RIM’s Blackberry handsets and several Nokia devices with CarrierIQ on board as well."
This would be so poorly worded otherwise, that it is hard to believe that the author didn't simply mean to write "not confirmed". That, and all of the articles by Trevor (and those in the scene) make NO mention at all about the iPhone.
You know your muscles are still going to hurt just as much as if you were making them move by yourself, right? Unless you sever the nerve connections, which given your attitude, I can't entirely rule out.
With the right feedback sensors in place, the system could perform the exercises with greater precision/effectiveness than you could do while distracted (say, watching TV) so it could prove to be a benefit to those that want to exercise but would prefer not to have to concern themselves with the intricate details of what the most effective routine is.
Jesus, mods, way to fall for a troll. Parent should be (Score:-5, Lying). There is no suggestion in any of the articles on this subject that the iPhone has this software, other than a CarrierIQ job requirement listing iPhone experience as optional...
Unless, of course, those walls have security cameras mounted on them.
With everything, there are pros and cons. Sometimes the pros outweight the cons, sometimes it's the other way around. And it"'s certainly not the same for everyone.
What was your point again?
His point is that there very well could be the exact same "features" present in iOS devices, as you seem to allude that there are not (given that this is one way they are "better"), but do not have any actual evidence to prove it...
Your argument (and that of many other commenters in this thread) would make sense if all earthquakes were caused by slip-fault activity and are therefore unavoidable/inevitable so long as there is tension between plates. That is simply not the case. It is perfectly possible (but no one really knows) that the process used in hydraulic fracturing (a lot easier of a term to use with a straight face than 'Fracking') is altering the crust in a way nothing else would, and hence is generating earthquakes that otherwise would never have existed in the first place.
When I was 16, I was thinking there has a market for an ultra small car, 1 passenger, if they can get it here for less than $5k or so. Just a town roundabout. Something that could achieve highway speeds but not much higher, like say 90mph, and any trunk space is minimal. When I see high school parking lots throughout the country with these big (sometimes initially expensive) clunkers.
The biggest reason that will never ever be a reality is as soon as you turn a vehicle out on the highway, it needs to be able to stand up to every other kind of vehicle in a crash (motorcycles being the exception, but you knew that.) The Smart Car is probably the smallest practical vehicle the US will ever see on it's roads, unless the landscape dramatically changes (i.e. gas prices increase 5x.)
The windshield on any sport motorcycle is useful only for its *named* purpose, to deflect wind ever so slightly up as to be less of a nuisance to the rider. Any sport bike rider who can actually use their windshield for looking through probably uses it to commute to the circus. Have you ever wondered why they dont bother putting a wiper on them?
Wonder how long these devices will be made for before being sued out of existence, but then again Segway, Inc is doing alright. Out of curiosity aside from looking really cool and all, what exactly is the advantage of having one wheel vs two? It looks like it performs about the same as a low speed scooter.
In 2 years a phone with a 1080p display is a likely reality. We already have phones/tablets running at/near 1280x720 which is 50% of the 1080p pixel count. But to say that it would be acceptable on the high end PC side is a stretch, in 2 years we will probably have desktop expectations beyond 1080p. Entry level to mid market could see a benefit though, that market has been under served by horrible attempts at "integrated" graphics for years. It will be interesting to see if this GPU compares to the beefed up CPU/GPU integrations coming from AMD. The new frontier (aside from serious game enthusiasts) is smaller and greener.
Five years ago tomorrow the PS3 made it's debut, did you think that in the mean time everyone just sat back and basked in the glory of its infinite capabilities? Two years from now (if that pans out) will be 7 years since the commercialization of the Cell chip, so seeing a miniature version that uses dramatically less power is pretty much par for the course. Desktop chips that have similar (or more specific) capabilities are already available in many products. Remember, the first PS3 drew an amazing 200 watts at full load, and within 2 years that was more than cut in half. This is just more progress, and *promised* progress at that. Hey ARM, why not just say you will have a flying car in 2 years?
There's no law requiring the executive branch to be inefficient.
If we take your argument at face value, why not install these devices on all cars during the inspection?
That's not the argument. The question he is posing is how tracking this single individual by GPS is any less legitimate than tracking him with an officer in an unmarked car.
But that is the EXACT argument being heard by the court, the question is simply do they need a warrant, not is it somehow dangerous or imposing to attache the device to your car. It is foregone that there is absolutely no impact on you should one of these devices be attached to your car, only an impact on your freedom (this is why it's a fourth amendment issue, and not some other concoction of first amendment excuses.)
This sort of thing combined with Chinaâ(TM)s very questionable use of banned pesticides and other sketchy farming chemicals is why I do not by food products marked as being from China. I know that many of the other âoeready madeâ food that I eat probably has ingredients from China, but at least I can reduce the amount of poisons I intake. I try to buy local produce, organic when I can, but this tends to be a little spendy. And of course avoiding processed foods and actually making real food in the kitchen goes a long way to avoid the poisonous crap that China exports.
Of course, there are some of the same issues here, but far far fewer.
Without the kind of government regulation that the Republicans and Tea Baggers want to do away with, this is how the United States would be as well.
It's scary and even regulations on labeling can't be imposed thanks, apparently, to the need to keep the government out of the way of business. According to the USDA, in 2007 50% of the apple juice consumed in the US came from China. That number is sure to increase.
OS X is a full fledged UNIX and as such, you'll always be able to do *Nixy things such as wget/curl a file, gunzip, configure and make.
You are probably right about everything else, but this made me LOL. There is nothing "*Nixy" about wget, curl, gzip, or make... Hate to burst your exclusivity bubble, but (a version of) all of those things exist for Windows, too. They are all just open source projects. The real question is, how long will Apple permit you to gain root level system wide privileges in Bash (or the shell du jour) without having to execute some sort of jailbreak?
People aren't going to use Siri very much, because talking to your phone makes you look stupid.
How do you make phone calls then without looking stupid?
By talking "through" your phone, not *to* it. You would look pretty dumb if your coworkers overheard you say "phone, tell my mom hi for me, and that i will be late for dinner"... When you could just, for example, press the button to call your mom and have that conversation...
Siri's advantage isn't the speech recognition or ties to Wolfram Alpha, but that it handles natural language (as TFA is referring to). I can tell Siri "I locked myself out of my apartment" and it will show me a list of nearby locksmiths to choose from via Google Maps. Iris will soon be able to do google lookups of math equations or tell me the capital of a country, but Siri goes far more than that. It's not about knowledge or access to data, but about your device recognizing what you mean. This is unlike even established products like Dragon dictate; it stops becoming LCARS from Star Trek and turns into JARVIS from Iron Man. The various wisecracks that Siri can deliver back were also part of Apple's design to give it some attitude.
This sort of feature is incredibly interesting, but how well does it really work for things that might not be already known by a normal person? I mean, it is pretty simple to know to say "find the nearest locksmith" if you are locked out; I highly doubt *anyone* responsible for locking themselves and their belongings up does not know that a locksmith is the go-to resource for such things. What if I said "i need to find a cheap glockenspiel" or "I just lost my wallet" or how about "i need to break up with my girlfriend"?
Non-secure, meaning: Do not leave sitting in your car with the records of 500,000 service personnel on it.
Clearly the Military wouldn't pay for a redundant device that allows them to lose 500,000 private records (get it, omg military puns) at a time, when the DAT tapes they have now work just fine...
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But you get the satisfaction of knowing that the first $1.50 of their (now clearly labeled) profit margin is on THEM. That will show em.
The nice thing is that the settlement will just strengthen the convictions of the Anti-Ticketmaster crowd, and we might see more people calling for real change, not the 6 quarters per ticket this lawsuit netted.
Grow up, retard; the goatse shit is old - much older than you'll ever be.
(oblig.) He got you good you fucker!
All the other *free to your door* ones are...
I can understand developers would like this, since the android emulator in the SDK is slower than molasses in (northern) December.
I suppose ICS would not be an issue to get on this for the future.
But $200 seems a little steep since a real tablet can be purchased for that price range (although with perhaps with less CPU/RAM). $50-$100 would probably be the sweet point.
It appears that this is not to be thought of as some sort of substitute phone (or other mobile device) but a way to take the effort into mobile development (Angry Birds, ultra low power graphics, etc.) and plaster it on a big screen. $200 might be a little steep for a set-side box (as we can see with the trouble Google TV and Apple TV have had) but if the price comes down or if there is a particularly killer app (portability is already a wow factor) then this might be a popular little gadget. I can picture a streamlined version (skip BT, right size the CPU/GPU) and you could have a highly portable media player that can be remotely controlled via a smartphone app. It would be nice to have a highly portable content streamer that was like a smartphone but wasnt actually a smartphone (having to stop your movie to take a call is a deal breaker.)
So shortly after all of the major carriers dropped the even slightly reasonable SMS plans, people started using the hacky but free alternatives? What a shocker. This seems like a classic example of what happens when you price yourself right out of the market.
If you want to see Price Discrimination at work, check out the prices on Mobile Virtual Network Operators (companies that buy access to Verizon, ATT, Sprint, etc. in bulk and resell it via subscription or prepaid contracts.) MVNO carriers offer basically the exact same coverage footprint, you can use the exact same set of handsets (but without a contract, the prices are obviously much different) and yet a MVNO will charge you at least *half*, if not less, for the exact same number of minutes, text messages, and data. Why more people don't use them instead of continuing to be extorted by the big carriers is beyond explanation. If gas cost half as much but you had to pump it yourself (oh, wait) how many people would ever go to full-serve filling stations?
So, you want to reward Wally? He probably doesn't introduce much bugs...
If his projects are rated as satisfactory by management (this "metric" ALWAYS comes first, no matter what the development style is) then sure. Sometimes the zen of knowing what not to do is more effective than having the energy to code 10,000 lines of something that is buggy and ultimately unneeded.
Whatever you measure will be gamed. Measure bugs fixed, and you will find people wasting time listing each tiny variation of a bug. Measure lines of code, you will get spaghetti code.
It almost seems better to measure a bunch of things and use a secret formula to determine productivity.
A secret formula like, oh I dunno, customer satisfaction (maybe "how many bugs make it to the customer")? Every piece of software is written for a customer (of some sort) so maybe time could be spent actually thinking about how effective the code is AFTER it's used. Speaking as someone who doesn't write much code, but lives and breathes the consequences of good and bad code every day, I can say with confidence that quality would go up if the only coding "practice" was severe punishment of anyone who introduced/propagated/failed to eliminate bugs in the code they were responsible for.
The ad I see at the top of the page is for Fossil watches. ;-)
Mother******* Adsense spots, how do they work?
(in other words, in order to read an article about a fancy watch and NOT seen an ad for a watch or watch-related service, you would need to be living in 1998.)
Actually, if you read the university press release, you'll see the magical ingredient is silicon. Current lithium-ion batteries already contain graphene sheets. What they did was
That's not quite the whole story: current lithium-ion battery designs have *graphite* in them, which is a bit disingenuous to describe merely as "many layers of graphene". The fact that in this design, they are in discrete multiple layers (with silicon and, as a result of this research, perforations) is what makes the difference. To my knowledge (correct me if I am wrong) no commercial battery has discrete graphene layers in it (graphene is a relatively new area of research, circa 2004, and conventional li-ion battery design has been relatively unchanged for about 20 years.)
"CarrierIQ is confirmed to be found on the iPhone or on feature phones, but Trevor has found RIM’s Blackberry handsets and several Nokia devices with CarrierIQ on board as well." This would be so poorly worded otherwise, that it is hard to believe that the author didn't simply mean to write "not confirmed". That, and all of the articles by Trevor (and those in the scene) make NO mention at all about the iPhone.
You know your muscles are still going to hurt just as much as if you were making them move by yourself, right? Unless you sever the nerve connections, which given your attitude, I can't entirely rule out.
With the right feedback sensors in place, the system could perform the exercises with greater precision/effectiveness than you could do while distracted (say, watching TV) so it could prove to be a benefit to those that want to exercise but would prefer not to have to concern themselves with the intricate details of what the most effective routine is.
Jesus, mods, way to fall for a troll. Parent should be (Score:-5, Lying). There is no suggestion in any of the articles on this subject that the iPhone has this software, other than a CarrierIQ job requirement listing iPhone experience as optional...
Unless, of course, those walls have security cameras mounted on them.
With everything, there are pros and cons. Sometimes the pros outweight the cons, sometimes it's the other way around. And it"'s certainly not the same for everyone.
What was your point again?
His point is that there very well could be the exact same "features" present in iOS devices, as you seem to allude that there are not (given that this is one way they are "better"), but do not have any actual evidence to prove it...
Your argument (and that of many other commenters in this thread) would make sense if all earthquakes were caused by slip-fault activity and are therefore unavoidable/inevitable so long as there is tension between plates. That is simply not the case. It is perfectly possible (but no one really knows) that the process used in hydraulic fracturing (a lot easier of a term to use with a straight face than 'Fracking') is altering the crust in a way nothing else would, and hence is generating earthquakes that otherwise would never have existed in the first place.
When I was 16, I was thinking there has a market for an ultra small car, 1 passenger, if they can get it here for less than $5k or so. Just a town roundabout. Something that could achieve highway speeds but not much higher, like say 90mph, and any trunk space is minimal. When I see high school parking lots throughout the country with these big (sometimes initially expensive) clunkers.
The biggest reason that will never ever be a reality is as soon as you turn a vehicle out on the highway, it needs to be able to stand up to every other kind of vehicle in a crash (motorcycles being the exception, but you knew that.) The Smart Car is probably the smallest practical vehicle the US will ever see on it's roads, unless the landscape dramatically changes (i.e. gas prices increase 5x.)
The windshield on any sport motorcycle is useful only for its *named* purpose, to deflect wind ever so slightly up as to be less of a nuisance to the rider. Any sport bike rider who can actually use their windshield for looking through probably uses it to commute to the circus. Have you ever wondered why they dont bother putting a wiper on them?
All i can see happening is an improved version of the Segway Faceplant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3gGav63_sE
Wonder how long these devices will be made for before being sued out of existence, but then again Segway, Inc is doing alright. Out of curiosity aside from looking really cool and all, what exactly is the advantage of having one wheel vs two? It looks like it performs about the same as a low speed scooter.
In 2 years a phone with a 1080p display is a likely reality. We already have phones/tablets running at/near 1280x720 which is 50% of the 1080p pixel count. But to say that it would be acceptable on the high end PC side is a stretch, in 2 years we will probably have desktop expectations beyond 1080p. Entry level to mid market could see a benefit though, that market has been under served by horrible attempts at "integrated" graphics for years. It will be interesting to see if this GPU compares to the beefed up CPU/GPU integrations coming from AMD. The new frontier (aside from serious game enthusiasts) is smaller and greener.
Five years ago tomorrow the PS3 made it's debut, did you think that in the mean time everyone just sat back and basked in the glory of its infinite capabilities? Two years from now (if that pans out) will be 7 years since the commercialization of the Cell chip, so seeing a miniature version that uses dramatically less power is pretty much par for the course. Desktop chips that have similar (or more specific) capabilities are already available in many products. Remember, the first PS3 drew an amazing 200 watts at full load, and within 2 years that was more than cut in half. This is just more progress, and *promised* progress at that. Hey ARM, why not just say you will have a flying car in 2 years?
They also don't have the restriction of manpower.
There's no law requiring the executive branch to be inefficient.
If we take your argument at face value, why not install these devices on all cars during the inspection?
That's not the argument. The question he is posing is how tracking this single individual by GPS is any less legitimate than tracking him with an officer in an unmarked car.
But that is the EXACT argument being heard by the court, the question is simply do they need a warrant, not is it somehow dangerous or imposing to attache the device to your car. It is foregone that there is absolutely no impact on you should one of these devices be attached to your car, only an impact on your freedom (this is why it's a fourth amendment issue, and not some other concoction of first amendment excuses.)
This sort of thing combined with Chinaâ(TM)s very questionable use of banned pesticides and other sketchy farming chemicals is why I do not by food products marked as being from China. I know that many of the other âoeready madeâ food that I eat probably has ingredients from China, but at least I can reduce the amount of poisons I intake. I try to buy local produce, organic when I can, but this tends to be a little spendy. And of course avoiding processed foods and actually making real food in the kitchen goes a long way to avoid the poisonous crap that China exports.
Of course, there are some of the same issues here, but far far fewer.
Without the kind of government regulation that the Republicans and Tea Baggers want to do away with, this is how the United States would be as well.
It's scary and even regulations on labeling can't be imposed thanks, apparently, to the need to keep the government out of the way of business. According to the USDA, in 2007 50% of the apple juice consumed in the US came from China. That number is sure to increase.
OS X is a full fledged UNIX and as such, you'll always be able to do *Nixy things such as wget/curl a file, gunzip, configure and make.
You are probably right about everything else, but this made me LOL. There is nothing "*Nixy" about wget, curl, gzip, or make... Hate to burst your exclusivity bubble, but (a version of) all of those things exist for Windows, too. They are all just open source projects. The real question is, how long will Apple permit you to gain root level system wide privileges in Bash (or the shell du jour) without having to execute some sort of jailbreak?
People aren't going to use Siri very much, because talking to your phone makes you look stupid.
How do you make phone calls then without looking stupid?
By talking "through" your phone, not *to* it. You would look pretty dumb if your coworkers overheard you say "phone, tell my mom hi for me, and that i will be late for dinner"... When you could just, for example, press the button to call your mom and have that conversation...
Iris is a weak attempt.
Siri's advantage isn't the speech recognition or ties to Wolfram Alpha, but that it handles natural language (as TFA is referring to). I can tell Siri "I locked myself out of my apartment" and it will show me a list of nearby locksmiths to choose from via Google Maps. Iris will soon be able to do google lookups of math equations or tell me the capital of a country, but Siri goes far more than that.
It's not about knowledge or access to data, but about your device recognizing what you mean. This is unlike even established products like Dragon dictate; it stops becoming LCARS from Star Trek and turns into JARVIS from Iron Man. The various wisecracks that Siri can deliver back were also part of Apple's design to give it some attitude.
This sort of feature is incredibly interesting, but how well does it really work for things that might not be already known by a normal person? I mean, it is pretty simple to know to say "find the nearest locksmith" if you are locked out; I highly doubt *anyone* responsible for locking themselves and their belongings up does not know that a locksmith is the go-to resource for such things. What if I said "i need to find a cheap glockenspiel" or "I just lost my wallet" or how about "i need to break up with my girlfriend"?
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Non-secure, meaning: Do not leave sitting in your car with the records of 500,000 service personnel on it.
Clearly the Military wouldn't pay for a redundant device that allows them to lose 500,000 private records (get it, omg military puns) at a time, when the DAT tapes they have now work just fine...