I see no problem with this if what you want is a 3/4/?? G enabled tablet. No need for two cell contracts, and the phone is still usable via a bluetooth earpiece and the tablet interface. You don't need the tablet for the phone to work, and you can still use the phone while using the tablet.
The only problem I really see with this is the limitation on the cell phone's processing power. Unless they speed it up with a secondary CPU/GPU and more memory in the tablet, I don't think it would be fast enough for tabletie type apps. Due to that limitation, I wouldn't purchase something like this. I want as much processing power possible on the tablet, and I don't need or want it to be cell-enabled. Tethering through the cell phone when I need networking away from home is sufficient.
You've heard of blue-tooth headsets, right? I'm sure the design team isn't stupid enough to leave the phone unusable while docked. Of course the cell provider will charge an extra $5 to $20 a month to be able to do that.
... While we're at it, I've always fancied getting myself a car-kit for my desk at home so I can use a traditional phone shaped handset while the actual phone is in the dock and also to boost my cell signal as my house is surrounded by trees.
Been doing this for years. Started out with a CellSocket before Bluetooth then moved to the Dock-n-Talk (both available here). I'm using an XLink now with a duel line multi-handset cordless phone. My phone gets docked right inside the kitchen door when I walk in, and it stays there until I go somewhere. I'm considering getting rid of the land line all together. Seems the only calls I get on it now days are telemarketers anyway.
Might still work out for the authors but will probably kill a lot of publishers/agents etc the rest of the industry. It would be like movies not needing sets, lighting, sound engineers etc, or at least in drastically reduced quantities. The actors might make more money but their would be a lot of the business that got wiped out in the process. Not everyone that works with books writes them and there are going to be a lot of people in the industry that won't be able to get their dream job.
So? You can't keep old outdated business models just because you'll loose jobs - retrain and move on. The time for book publishers and the RIAA controlling the book and music industry is ending, and the MPAA isn't far behind, If you're young and looking in that direction for a career, you need to think again
And this scares the shit out of the major ISP/cable providers. This is also the reason for the big push for metered broadband. Comcast (or any other cable provider for that matter) will not drop their prices on cable without being able to make it up in their broadband income. And you bet your ass they're in the process of buying the representatives to make it happen.
Apple and Google need to figure out how to ignore your hand resting on the screen while writing with a stylus and license this tech form whoever owns it.
And write with your finger? The biggest problem Apple has for making the iPad a tool for business is also it's biggest asset in the home-consumer-realm: the touch screen. Fine-detailed input requires a stylus, because we all have fat fingers compared to a pen-point.
What? Did you even read what you quoted from my reply? I understand trying to write with your finger is a stupid idea, and specificity mention a stylus. It shouldn't be hard to implement this in some way in software. When the note taking (or even drawing) software is running, ignore multi touch and skin capacitance and concentrate on the specific capacitance of the stylus. You can even design in a pressure sensitive tip that changes capacitance to simulate pressure sensitive writing/drawing.
That's where they're making their mistake. Ditch the typing in favour of writing on the thing. I bought an old HP tablet with Windows XP tablet edition about 4 or 5 years ago for note taking. The handwriting detection is amazing. It will literally, on the fly, convert my handwriting into text with amazing accuracy. Most awesome for note taking during meetings and, I'm sure, class. Apple and Google need to figure out how to ignore your hand resting on the screen while writing with a stylus and license this tech form whoever owns it.
All AT&T customers affected by this need to get together and file a lawsuit before this becomes the norm for all ISPs. This is nothing less than entertainment/cable providers attempting to kill the competition before it gets too rooted. Cable companies are scared shitless of streaming content, and the majority of U.S. entertainment customers don't know its even possible yet.
There is no way this should be l eagle, but without customer challenging NOW, it will be too late to do anything about it later, and you know damn well the DOJ doesn't give a shit about us.
I'm not sure how Win7 does it (Win7 is my gaming platform, so I don't spend much time on the desktop) but in KDE, you can drag windows to the top of the desktop easily by not clicking on the very top edge of the window (which will make the window resize anyway). Click and drag anywhere in the titlebar and as soon as the top edge of the window hits the top of the screen, the window will stop moving. Continueing your upward "dragging" will move only the pointer, and as soon as that hits the top edge of the screen, you will get window maximisation. Works left and right as well. Normal window dragging until the cursor hits the edge.
Calling this tamper resistant is like calling a phillips-head tamper resistant because all you have in your toolbox is a flat-head. Just because you have to buy a new tool doesn't make it tamper resistant.
Again, we're talking acronyms here. Geraldine is not an acronym for anything as far as I know. It's a word with a soft g sound, same as the g in general. The g in gif comes from the g in graphics, which has a hard g sound and should take on that hard g sound.
Great! Now can we transfer our corn subsidies over to sugar crops, get rid of corn sugar in everything and go with real sugar again? I'm getting tired of having to search for Mexican Coke.
It's not the proper pronunciation, no matter what Larry Boucher intended. If he wanted it to be pronounced as sexy, he should have included the 'a' from small - SaCSI - although I'm not sure skipping letters makes it a proper acronym.
I always get a laugh out of people who pronounce gif as jif - and yes, I know the creators of the format used a soft G, but that is wrong. Acronym letters should take the sound of the letters in the word they replace.
But but but.... I have the god given, constitution granted inalienable right to play Farmville, have my desktop covered with widgets and surf the web while at work! By god, I'm an 'merican!! What the hell do you expect me to do while I'm at work, WORK?!? I don't get paid to stare at those blinking pixels and dial thingamabobs all damn day.
China. Where's my pass-through video card I can put in my MCPC to overlay text and graphics on my TV? I want to feed my TIVO into my MCPC so I can control my own PIP and overlays. I couldn't care less about pirating the stuff myself. If I want a local copy of something, it's already out in the wild - I'll get it that way. I just want to be able to control my media and view what I want how I want.
IMHO, Chrome OS is a joke. I don't want an "appliance" that can't do anything without a net connection. Not to mention the security and privacy issues of all my data and apps being in the "cloud".
I agree with banning the sale of violent games to minors - parents should have control over what their children see/play, but how long before it becomes illegal for parents to purchase them for their children?
The browser itself doesn't really have the capability to use the webcam. It's the scripts on the page you're on and locally installed drivers and programs that give the browser access. This is really no different than running any program that has access to the webcam. As far as browser based exploits go, unless you have the drivers and software installed and proper permissions set on your computer, there is really nothing the browser can do access it, exploit or no. Turn off your webcam and set it so it will not turn on without your permission.
People have to start taking responsibility for the security of their own computers. If you're going to open your computer to the world, learn to keep it secure. Stay off suddenlyfast.com, securemypc.com or whatever they advertise on TV. Get rid of IE and use Firefox or Chrome and if all you do on your computer is browse the web and email, get rid of MS Windows.
Ummmm.. How the hell do you reckon they transmit something over the air without using radio waves? Not every house in the country has cable access, and the telephone lines sure as hell won't carry one channel, much less the "Big Three", PBS and Fox...
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I see no problem with this if what you want is a 3/4/?? G enabled tablet. No need for two cell contracts, and the phone is still usable via a bluetooth earpiece and the tablet interface. You don't need the tablet for the phone to work, and you can still use the phone while using the tablet.
The only problem I really see with this is the limitation on the cell phone's processing power. Unless they speed it up with a secondary CPU/GPU and more memory in the tablet, I don't think it would be fast enough for tabletie type apps. Due to that limitation, I wouldn't purchase something like this. I want as much processing power possible on the tablet, and I don't need or want it to be cell-enabled. Tethering through the cell phone when I need networking away from home is sufficient.
That's actually kinda cool.. If I stayed within range of my cell all day, I might actually get one just for the novelty of it.
You've heard of blue-tooth headsets, right? I'm sure the design team isn't stupid enough to leave the phone unusable while docked. Of course the cell provider will charge an extra $5 to $20 a month to be able to do that.
... While we're at it, I've always fancied getting myself a car-kit for my desk at home so I can use a traditional phone shaped handset while the actual phone is in the dock and also to boost my cell signal as my house is surrounded by trees.
Been doing this for years. Started out with a CellSocket before Bluetooth then moved to the Dock-n-Talk (both available here). I'm using an XLink now with a duel line multi-handset cordless phone. My phone gets docked right inside the kitchen door when I walk in, and it stays there until I go somewhere. I'm considering getting rid of the land line all together. Seems the only calls I get on it now days are telemarketers anyway.
Might still work out for the authors but will probably kill a lot of publishers/agents etc the rest of the industry. It would be like movies not needing sets, lighting, sound engineers etc, or at least in drastically reduced quantities. The actors might make more money but their would be a lot of the business that got wiped out in the process. Not everyone that works with books writes them and there are going to be a lot of people in the industry that won't be able to get their dream job.
So? You can't keep old outdated business models just because you'll loose jobs - retrain and move on. The time for book publishers and the RIAA controlling the book and music industry is ending, and the MPAA isn't far behind, If you're young and looking in that direction for a career, you need to think again
It also makes a second service plan for a tablet useless, which is more likely to be their motive.
And this scares the shit out of the major ISP/cable providers. This is also the reason for the big push for metered broadband. Comcast (or any other cable provider for that matter) will not drop their prices on cable without being able to make it up in their broadband income. And you bet your ass they're in the process of buying the representatives to make it happen.
Apple and Google need to figure out how to ignore your hand resting on the screen while writing with a stylus and license this tech form whoever owns it.
And write with your finger? The biggest problem Apple has for making the iPad a tool for business is also it's biggest asset in the home-consumer-realm: the touch screen. Fine-detailed input requires a stylus, because we all have fat fingers compared to a pen-point.
What? Did you even read what you quoted from my reply? I understand trying to write with your finger is a stupid idea, and specificity mention a stylus. It shouldn't be hard to implement this in some way in software. When the note taking (or even drawing) software is running, ignore multi touch and skin capacitance and concentrate on the specific capacitance of the stylus. You can even design in a pressure sensitive tip that changes capacitance to simulate pressure sensitive writing/drawing.
That's where they're making their mistake. Ditch the typing in favour of writing on the thing. I bought an old HP tablet with Windows XP tablet edition about 4 or 5 years ago for note taking. The handwriting detection is amazing. It will literally, on the fly, convert my handwriting into text with amazing accuracy. Most awesome for note taking during meetings and, I'm sure, class. Apple and Google need to figure out how to ignore your hand resting on the screen while writing with a stylus and license this tech form whoever owns it.
All AT&T customers affected by this need to get together and file a lawsuit before this becomes the norm for all ISPs. This is nothing less than entertainment/cable providers attempting to kill the competition before it gets too rooted. Cable companies are scared shitless of streaming content, and the majority of U.S. entertainment customers don't know its even possible yet.
There is no way this should be l eagle, but without customer challenging NOW, it will be too late to do anything about it later, and you know damn well the DOJ doesn't give a shit about us.
I'm not sure how Win7 does it (Win7 is my gaming platform, so I don't spend much time on the desktop) but in KDE, you can drag windows to the top of the desktop easily by not clicking on the very top edge of the window (which will make the window resize anyway). Click and drag anywhere in the titlebar and as soon as the top edge of the window hits the top of the screen, the window will stop moving. Continueing your upward "dragging" will move only the pointer, and as soon as that hits the top edge of the screen, you will get window maximisation. Works left and right as well. Normal window dragging until the cursor hits the edge.
What?!? I think you need to look up that definition again.
Calling this tamper resistant is like calling a phillips-head tamper resistant because all you have in your toolbox is a flat-head. Just because you have to buy a new tool doesn't make it tamper resistant.
Actually, it would have more of the sound of an o making it sound like soxy. I guess that wouldn't work either.
There's no way to make SCSI sound sexy without renaming the interface.
Again, we're talking acronyms here. Geraldine is not an acronym for anything as far as I know. It's a word with a soft g sound, same as the g in general. The g in gif comes from the g in graphics, which has a hard g sound and should take on that hard g sound.
Just because you need more, doesn't make it worse for you. Fructose and sucrose are two different substances. Your body processes them differently.
Giga is not an acronym of gigantic, it's a prefix derived from the Greek word for giant. We're talking acronyms here, not derivative words.
Great! Now can we transfer our corn subsidies over to sugar crops, get rid of corn sugar in everything and go with real sugar again? I'm getting tired of having to search for Mexican Coke.
It's not the proper pronunciation, no matter what Larry Boucher intended. If he wanted it to be pronounced as sexy, he should have included the 'a' from small - SaCSI - although I'm not sure skipping letters makes it a proper acronym.
I always get a laugh out of people who pronounce gif as jif - and yes, I know the creators of the format used a soft G, but that is wrong. Acronym letters should take the sound of the letters in the word they replace.
But but but.... I have the god given, constitution granted inalienable right to play Farmville, have my desktop covered with widgets and surf the web while at work! By god, I'm an 'merican!! What the hell do you expect me to do while I'm at work, WORK?!? I don't get paid to stare at those blinking pixels and dial thingamabobs all damn day.
China. Where's my pass-through video card I can put in my MCPC to overlay text and graphics on my TV? I want to feed my TIVO into my MCPC so I can control my own PIP and overlays. I couldn't care less about pirating the stuff myself. If I want a local copy of something, it's already out in the wild - I'll get it that way. I just want to be able to control my media and view what I want how I want.
IMHO, Chrome OS is a joke. I don't want an "appliance" that can't do anything without a net connection. Not to mention the security and privacy issues of all my data and apps being in the "cloud".
I agree with banning the sale of violent games to minors - parents should have control over what their children see/play, but how long before it becomes illegal for parents to purchase them for their children?
The browser itself doesn't really have the capability to use the webcam. It's the scripts on the page you're on and locally installed drivers and programs that give the browser access. This is really no different than running any program that has access to the webcam. As far as browser based exploits go, unless you have the drivers and software installed and proper permissions set on your computer, there is really nothing the browser can do access it, exploit or no. Turn off your webcam and set it so it will not turn on without your permission.
People have to start taking responsibility for the security of their own computers. If you're going to open your computer to the world, learn to keep it secure. Stay off suddenlyfast.com, securemypc.com or whatever they advertise on TV. Get rid of IE and use Firefox or Chrome and if all you do on your computer is browse the web and email, get rid of MS Windows.
Ummmm.. How the hell do you reckon they transmit something over the air without using radio waves? Not every house in the country has cable access, and the telephone lines sure as hell won't carry one channel, much less the "Big Three", PBS and Fox...