We got some iPads here at work to eval for use in various places. I was very underwhelmed. OTOH - My family and I really enjoy our Asus Transformer tablet. Whenever my kids are home for my weekends, a common question from my wife is "Where's the tablet?" I am very happy about not being tied to iTunes either. There's only one iPod left in the house, and it's a nightmare of support when she has problems.
I'm gonna disagree. You make it sound like you're being impartial but you're not. You didn't elaborate on the usage you tried in the office. Would the Asus Transformer have held up any better? You didn't specify. Has your family ever used an iPad or are they just trained in the usage of the Asus tablet / Android? Then you point out some unrelated issue about nightmare and an iPod.
Due to massive reduction programs, most of the world keeps CO2 at most slightly increasing, and in some cases lowering. Except for China who's doubling their pollution every ten years.
Doubling their pollution every ten years is only 7% growth.
Actually if you would put the tax in ratio with the population, the US would scream bloody murder
Wouldn't this lead to Americans consuming much less (goal), which would then lead to even worse worldwide economic turmoil? So are we drawing a line between economy vs. climate now?
Must Every.Single.Article. relating to Apple get trolled by Android fanbois and vice versa? Is this really worth your time, to argue inane points about some preferred phone OS you use? 90% of the comments on this article are worthless drivel. Sometimes I think the quality of/. commenting is going down hill in a big way, but then I see other sites forums with the same issues on the iOS/Android flame war. Are your lives really that shallow?
Perhaps/. should do away with AC commenting. Sure you could still do it with a throwaway account but that effort would cut a lot of noise out of the system.
Siri doesn't read you your emails or texts that I can find on my 4S. That is one drawback another poster mentioned is that it doesn't read back to you it's responses all the time, say when you're dictating a message. That should be an option to turn off and on. If it was smarter, it could know when connected to your car's BT that it should read back to you. Simple things like that hopefully are coming with updates.
I really wish Android would throw up much better competition than its current Voice Commands or Speaktoit and such. Actually interact with the phone moreso than Siri by changing phone functions, turning on wifi/BT, etc. I like Siri and use it daily but I can see so much more potential than its current implementation.
Siri is Apple's way of drawing attention from the fact that they do not have an iPhone 5, or an iPad 3. It is Apple's way of drawing attention away from the fact that Android phones are out 'innovating' them in the hardware arena....Siri is a distraction akin to "hey, hey! Look over here at this hand, not the hand holding virtually the same phone you've been buying for so long now..."
Possibly True on point one, though more just simple marketing. Out innovating them in the hardware? What do high end Android mfg's have that Apple doesn't besides some not-widely-used features such as NFC chip or 4G (very little coverage - put in next phone-if not then I'll agree).
Apple buys it's "innovation" of the hardware from other mfg's, just like other Android phone mfg's don't mfg all their own internal hardware. What Android phone as a high res screen like Apple? A camera as good as Apple's newest? And besides it's how the hardware is used that matters, the UI, smoothness of the whole package, not tech specs. Tech specs never win out except for geeks.
While the AI aspect is interesting, the accurate voice recognition is at least a large a hurdle - and Google (via Voice and the Android search) has been collecting more data than Apple can even dream of for the past couple of years.
And yet Siri gets my voice commands and dictation right most of the time while my Google Voicemails transcriptions are usually crap. Somethings not adding up.
Yeah, if by 99% you mean about 70% and with structured, formal commands. Apple had that too.
and all they have to do is make a different app with the same code as google voice and just add a series of lookup tables that convert common phrase fragments into Android commands. Easy Peasy
Yeah, simple. Why haven't those guys simply done it yet, it's so simple! I could do it in my spare time and make a fortune, but I'll just sit back smugly and let Apple have their day. Those jerks.
Walking around, or sitting on the train, talking to my mobile, viewing the response, looking like an ass - none of this adds up to the experience I was hoping to have - which is that all data flows from my brain onto the device which presents the results to my visual cortex without having to interact with anything at all.
Let me know when they are done making that one work.
You don't have to "talk to your phone" like you are thinking, holding it out in front of you. Siri works also by simply holding it up to your ear like you were making a call (it turns on automatically when you do this) and also works with the Apple headset mic.
Sure we all want data to go straight to our brains and to have a retina implant that functions as the screen along with mind sensing control, but that tech isn't quite there yet (although there have been baby steps in each).
You've never used Siri have you? You don't have to hold it out in front of you to talk to it. You can start Siri simply by moving the screen to your normal phone talking position so it looks and sounds like you are on a phone call OR you can use the Apple headphones with the mic and use it that way. You're just looking for reasons not to like it. It's so much quicker than typing and clicking menus for some tasks during some occasions. It's not an all or nothing interface.
Not sure why I'm replying to AC but frankly, you don't have a clue what you are talking about and you have never used Siri. I have a 4S and use Siri multiple times a day. I was talking with a coworker that has an ADD relative whom this would be perfect for.
Nope, bad parenting. Parental controls are on nearly every electronic device that's media capable. It takes 2 seconds to search for it as a parent. They've made it intuitive with the password requirement and the parental controls in the settings. So you're saying it's not "walled-garden" enough? Interesting.
Does this include all of the Angry Birds games or only the original? Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons, Angry Birds Rio (and possibly others)? I've got all 3 and they have been well worth the buck entry fee. Their continual addition of new levels makes it one of the best values out there for games.
And can we seriously stop with the 50 posts and reposts about some typo in the summary?
Reading comprehension fail. If you read the article or know anything about it, it is talking about Global Warming overall, not the cause of it. The study was able to prove to those deniers that warming is actually happening. How much is actually caused by humans is not put forward in the study, it even says so at the end of the news article.
At very least, there should be some requirement for parents to authorize the in-game purchases and limit spending on them on a per-game basis.
There is. Under Settings>General>Restrictions. You can turn off In-App Purchases or require a password immediately or every 15 minutes. Silly is the parent that gives up their password (basically their CC info to their kid to purchase as wanted). There is also an iTunes allowance that can be setup for kids. Allowance
You can also set Restrictions in the Settings>General area. This allows you to turn off In-App purchases all together or to require a password either at 15 minutes or Immediately.
So don't give your kid an expensive device that has a chance to be more expensive unless you put on parental controls. That's just good parenting.
I mean really, they give you the "freedom" to do what you want and you complain it's too easy. Take some responsibility!
4G (LTE not HSDPA+) is worthless in most parts of the US/world. Rollouts to many areas won't be widespread until late next year, plenty of time for the next iPhone (assuming annual model trend) to be released with it and the new, lower power chips.
With articles like this, you would think it really mattered who made more of what in a quarter... Never mind that geographies are different, carriers are different, and features are different. Time to buckle down for the hordes of apple and android gang-bangers to fill another thread with vitriol and made up words.
Or the fact that one is estimates of shipments to outlets and another is actual sales reported.
True, but his customer is not out any money. They don't purchase until it works. Plus it's all self-funded. A scam? Possibly but more likely just self-delusion.
Investors in this venture are going to take it in the shorts.
To my understanding, there is only one investor, himself. He has turned down offers from outside, interested parties. If anything this makes it slightly more legit as opposed to a money scam. No outside investors, and the initial customer only purchases if it "produced 6x more energy than input". So all the risk, both monetary and fame, are on him--as it should be.
It won't work mind you, but at least he's doing self-delusion the right way and taking all the risk himself.
Only if you count the common door hinge as an Android since it's shape is similar to this. Two pieces hinged in the middle works by gravity (or a slightly off door alignment).
Stop calling these robots! Do you call Newton's Cradle a robot as well? What about the Drinking Bird or even the common Slinky? Just b/c it has a shape that is in two pieces like a leg does not a robot make, esp one that relies on gravity to perform any motion.
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We got some iPads here at work to eval for use in various places. I was very underwhelmed. OTOH - My family and I really enjoy our Asus Transformer tablet. Whenever my kids are home for my weekends, a common question from my wife is "Where's the tablet?" I am very happy about not being tied to iTunes either. There's only one iPod left in the house, and it's a nightmare of support when she has problems.
I'm gonna disagree. You make it sound like you're being impartial but you're not. You didn't elaborate on the usage you tried in the office. Would the Asus Transformer have held up any better? You didn't specify. Has your family ever used an iPad or are they just trained in the usage of the Asus tablet / Android? Then you point out some unrelated issue about nightmare and an iPod.
If you don't like Apple / iOS, just say so.
Due to massive reduction programs, most of the world keeps CO2 at most slightly increasing, and in some cases lowering. Except for China who's doubling their pollution every ten years.
Doubling their pollution every ten years is only 7% growth.
Time to double = 100log2/x% = 70/x%. If T=10, then x% is only 7%. Video on exponentials, simple math
Actually if you would put the tax in ratio with the population, the US would scream bloody murder
Wouldn't this lead to Americans consuming much less (goal), which would then lead to even worse worldwide economic turmoil? So are we drawing a line between economy vs. climate now?
Oh great, here come the AC trolls...and the resulting flame war.
Must Every.Single.Article. relating to Apple get trolled by Android fanbois and vice versa? Is this really worth your time, to argue inane points about some preferred phone OS you use? 90% of the comments on this article are worthless drivel. Sometimes I think the quality of /. commenting is going down hill in a big way, but then I see other sites forums with the same issues on the iOS/Android flame war. Are your lives really that shallow?
/. should do away with AC commenting. Sure you could still do it with a throwaway account but that effort would cut a lot of noise out of the system.
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Siri doesn't read you your emails or texts that I can find on my 4S. That is one drawback another poster mentioned is that it doesn't read back to you it's responses all the time, say when you're dictating a message. That should be an option to turn off and on. If it was smarter, it could know when connected to your car's BT that it should read back to you. Simple things like that hopefully are coming with updates.
I really wish Android would throw up much better competition than its current Voice Commands or Speaktoit and such. Actually interact with the phone moreso than Siri by changing phone functions, turning on wifi/BT, etc. I like Siri and use it daily but I can see so much more potential than its current implementation.
Siri is Apple's way of drawing attention from the fact that they do not have an iPhone 5, or an iPad 3. It is Apple's way of drawing attention away from the fact that Android phones are out 'innovating' them in the hardware arena. ...Siri is a distraction akin to "hey, hey! Look over here at this hand, not the hand holding virtually the same phone you've been buying for so long now..."
Possibly True on point one, though more just simple marketing. Out innovating them in the hardware? What do high end Android mfg's have that Apple doesn't besides some not-widely-used features such as NFC chip or 4G (very little coverage - put in next phone-if not then I'll agree).
Apple buys it's "innovation" of the hardware from other mfg's, just like other Android phone mfg's don't mfg all their own internal hardware. What Android phone as a high res screen like Apple? A camera as good as Apple's newest? And besides it's how the hardware is used that matters, the UI, smoothness of the whole package, not tech specs. Tech specs never win out except for geeks.
While the AI aspect is interesting, the accurate voice recognition is at least a large a hurdle - and Google (via Voice and the Android search) has been collecting more data than Apple can even dream of for the past couple of years.
And yet Siri gets my voice commands and dictation right most of the time while my Google Voicemails transcriptions are usually crap. Somethings not adding up.
It already does 99% of what Siri does
Yeah, if by 99% you mean about 70% and with structured, formal commands. Apple had that too.
and all they have to do is make a different app with the same code as google voice and just add a series of lookup tables that convert common phrase fragments into Android commands. Easy Peasy
Yeah, simple. Why haven't those guys simply done it yet, it's so simple! I could do it in my spare time and make a fortune, but I'll just sit back smugly and let Apple have their day. Those jerks.
Walking around, or sitting on the train, talking to my mobile, viewing the response, looking like an ass - none of this adds up to the experience I was hoping to have - which is that all data flows from my brain onto the device which presents the results to my visual cortex without having to interact with anything at all. Let me know when they are done making that one work.
You don't have to "talk to your phone" like you are thinking, holding it out in front of you. Siri works also by simply holding it up to your ear like you were making a call (it turns on automatically when you do this) and also works with the Apple headset mic.
Sure we all want data to go straight to our brains and to have a retina implant that functions as the screen along with mind sensing control, but that tech isn't quite there yet (although there have been baby steps in each).
You've never used Siri have you? You don't have to hold it out in front of you to talk to it. You can start Siri simply by moving the screen to your normal phone talking position so it looks and sounds like you are on a phone call OR you can use the Apple headphones with the mic and use it that way. You're just looking for reasons not to like it. It's so much quicker than typing and clicking menus for some tasks during some occasions. It's not an all or nothing interface.
All your comment shows is your an Apple hater and have never used Siri.
Not sure why I'm replying to AC but frankly, you don't have a clue what you are talking about and you have never used Siri. I have a 4S and use Siri multiple times a day. I was talking with a coworker that has an ADD relative whom this would be perfect for.
Nope, bad parenting. Parental controls are on nearly every electronic device that's media capable. It takes 2 seconds to search for it as a parent. They've made it intuitive with the password requirement and the parental controls in the settings. So you're saying it's not "walled-garden" enough? Interesting.
Does this include all of the Angry Birds games or only the original? Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons, Angry Birds Rio (and possibly others)? I've got all 3 and they have been well worth the buck entry fee. Their continual addition of new levels makes it one of the best values out there for games.
And can we seriously stop with the 50 posts and reposts about some typo in the summary?
"Seige Hero" is another that is similar to CtC though instead of being a side view, it's a head on view.
Reading comprehension fail. If you read the article or know anything about it, it is talking about Global Warming overall, not the cause of it. The study was able to prove to those deniers that warming is actually happening. How much is actually caused by humans is not put forward in the study, it even says so at the end of the news article.
At very least, there should be some requirement for parents to authorize the in-game purchases and limit spending on them on a per-game basis.
There is. Under Settings>General>Restrictions. You can turn off In-App Purchases or require a password immediately or every 15 minutes. Silly is the parent that gives up their password (basically their CC info to their kid to purchase as wanted). There is also an iTunes allowance that can be setup for kids. Allowance
You can also set Restrictions in the Settings>General area. This allows you to turn off In-App purchases all together or to require a password either at 15 minutes or Immediately.
So don't give your kid an expensive device that has a chance to be more expensive unless you put on parental controls. That's just good parenting.
I mean really, they give you the "freedom" to do what you want and you complain it's too easy. Take some responsibility!
4G (LTE not HSDPA+) is worthless in most parts of the US/world. Rollouts to many areas won't be widespread until late next year, plenty of time for the next iPhone (assuming annual model trend) to be released with it and the new, lower power chips.
With articles like this, you would think it really mattered who made more of what in a quarter... Never mind that geographies are different, carriers are different, and features are different. Time to buckle down for the hordes of apple and android gang-bangers to fill another thread with vitriol and made up words.
Or the fact that one is estimates of shipments to outlets and another is actual sales reported.
True, but his customer is not out any money. They don't purchase until it works. Plus it's all self-funded. A scam? Possibly but more likely just self-delusion.
open up the shorts
Investors in this venture are going to take it in the shorts.
To my understanding, there is only one investor, himself. He has turned down offers from outside, interested parties. If anything this makes it slightly more legit as opposed to a money scam. No outside investors, and the initial customer only purchases if it "produced 6x more energy than input". So all the risk, both monetary and fame, are on him--as it should be.
It won't work mind you, but at least he's doing self-delusion the right way and taking all the risk himself.
Only if you count the common door hinge as an Android since it's shape is similar to this. Two pieces hinged in the middle works by gravity (or a slightly off door alignment).
Stop calling these robots! Do you call Newton's Cradle a robot as well? What about the Drinking Bird or even the common Slinky? Just b/c it has a shape that is in two pieces like a leg does not a robot make, esp one that relies on gravity to perform any motion.