I see phone apps that are smart enough to silence the ringer at a funeral, that can take into account your schedule and location to know when to act politely. Apple and Google have reasons that prevent this kind of app from existing.
Yeah, I've never understood why one of the audible ringtones couldn't be something like 5 vibrations in a row AND THEN comes the loud ringer. Most would feel/hear the vibrations but if they couldn't then the ringer would go off. Obviously there are times when completely silent is preferred, buy why isn't this combo an option?
Kris from New jesrey
I was laying on bed watching TV at 1.45 PM today.At 1.50 I fely and heard a strange sound appearing on my bed below.Later it intensified and felt for more than a two second.It was virtually shaking and I was scared.It cooled down.I tried to reach 911 but the line was already engaged.I could finally reach and the Police enquired if everything was okay.I said it was okay.This was the first time in my life to have experienced the earth quake in this part of the world!
Why would you call 911? Especially since everything was OK? It's more rhetorical since this is an AC but this is sometimes why the lines get tied up in an emergency, clueless people jamming the emergency lines for no reason.
Not now, no. But once we advance enough technologically and can actually move around in space with relative easy...
What makes you think we'll ever reach that point?
While Sci-fi stretches the imagination, we don't have unobtanium and never will. There seems to be a relative short time in the lifetime of a species to where they have to advance quickly before the population uses up available resources or scientists make advances in tech. Or it could be we reach such a technological advancement that there is too much power for the individual and due to crazies, leads to catastrophic effects. As it stands now, we are so focused inwardly it will never happen as there is nothing out there worth pursuing at such a great cost.
Not to paraphrase the famous quote but it seems we've gotten a lot of the low hanging fruit in the technological tree and will need to focus our resources (as in many games) purposefully on the next technology tree. But we aren't.
More importantly, they'd have to give up control of the main entertainment device in most homes
Interesting if true. I would have thought with Hulu and tons of other entertainment that cable's glory days were behind. I'd really like to know the % of homes that still have cable as I'm sure with the economy, many are considering other, cheaper alternatives.I know many that have ditched it in the past couple years and those that do have it, it's mainly b/c of ESPN/sports. At least around here, it is a non-trivial amount to add basic cable to your internet service, let alone any premium packages.
So you're basically calling that judicial system incompetent since they don't look at, you know, the *actual products*? Something tells me that making this kind of a judgement that affects millions of dollars would require a little more scrutiny than looking at a thumbnail pic on a legal sheet. That or you don't know jack about the details of the case and what actually happened and are just slinging soundbites.
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
In many regards we have become the latter but it is likely due to the rise of available information in near real time. Not everyone can be a great mind, in fact I'd say we need a mixture of all 3.
We all know this is about the patents. But as Motorola Mobility is not Motorola Solutions, I'm curious to see what patents they actually got or if there are still a lot with the company Motorola Solutions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola
The SSD costs more than banning Facebook, which will recover an unproductive 3 hours / day.
From my experience, people will have (and need?) downtime during the day whether you get rid of some distractions or not. They will just make other things the distractions in the amount they can get away with and you won't end up with any more throughput and will have decreased morale. Take it from someone that used to study workers behavior as a profession and give the efficiency studies to the employer, we usually throw out the first couple days of data. After a couple days of the inspector checking work times and such, workers go back to their normal routine and ignore the inspector.
That is why it is better to pay for performance and goals than it is for time (where the job allows). Let them manage their own time, just get the job done when it's supposed to be done. (Again not all jobs obviously can be setup this way)
You both are talking about different incidents. There are two different people that were shot. The one the GP is talking about happened a couple of years ago and the video shows him cuffed on the ground on the train platform when one of the officers (surrounded by onlookers) takes out his gun and then it goes off. This is not the same as the guy coming at the officer with the knife.
I'm gonna go out on a short limb and say your post is fake or you work for a pretty crappy company if worthless changes to tablets and MOAR wifi in phones is all you got. I don't think multiple proxies were needed.
What I would like to see is something consumers could use that would scan rooms or objects and create them in 3D space ala some of those Kinnect videos, except you know, usable by the common man (or is there already?). Something comparable to what Johnny Chung Lee did with the Wiimote. Put this into the hands of the public and you will have some pretty interesting uses. I'd think it would be perfect for those working in real estate or remodeling, quickly and easily getting a 3D model you could edit.
Same here. Ever since that and that "you can't call us bias" article by Joel is when I stopped and vowed to not return. Unfortunately I have the few times Lifehacker cross links a post but I quickly leave. Can't stand the layout either and there are better sites like Engadget and others out there.
No, what I meant was tethering with your iPhone to an iPad that only has Wifi. This was big talk when the iPad came out if you'd be able to connect it to your iPhone or not. This was before ATT allowed tethering though. But since they use the roughly same browser and OS, you wouldn't be detected.
You don't really find a single Higgs boson. You can't detect the Higgs directly. You have to detect its decay processes (usually, a pair of taus or photons), which can also be produced by other processes. You find it statistically: if you get more of those pairs than is accounted for by understood processes, and if the amount of the excess corresponds to the mount of excesses you'd expect from the Higgs, AND if the machine is running at an energy that you'd expect to produce the Higgs, you get to call it a detection.
So you can count up how many Higgs events you thought there were, and then repeat the experiments focusing on the energy range you think the Higgs has. So, it's not quite the "eureka" moment you might hope for, but it's good enough to confirm the Standard Model.
Whether all of that was really "worth it"... well, that's something else altogether.
So what is the actual benefit in finding this theorized particle? So we "find" it by actually only seeing it's after effects, what then? What practical application will it serve or will it just be a stepping stone to finding the next sub atomic particle or some answer to an abstract theory? Wikipedia didn't help much as I'm a typical layman and only took physics in college.
Our last Marriot hotel we stayed at had a large touch screen tv in the lobby, I'm guessing it was 47 or 52. It had a nice overlay of weather, news, local events etc that you could all interact with as you'd expect. Some of the big network morning shows use this as well. I'm not seeing what the big deal is here, is it b/c of it's size? Doesn't MS's Surface scale to just about any size? True, once you get too big your resolution is lacking if you are standing too close.
Towers are not overloaded, the provider just needs to add more antennas on the tower. Using a land line while at home when you have a cell phone is ridiculous as well. What's the point of wasting an extra $20/month when you don't need it and can just use your cell phone? Less and less people have home phones anymore, just ask any telco. Wifi is not everywhere.
Also, you seem to have a lot of anger towards smartphones, the iPhone in particular. Perhaps you just need more coffee. Now I'll get off your lawn.
It's pretty cool stuff. If there are seasonal cycles like this in the subsurface of Mars, then it is most likely that there are some extreme microbes in there that feed off of this solution...
Emphasis mine. Don't carelessly throw around such descriptions when we are talking about the magnitude of such a find.
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I see phone apps that are smart enough to silence the ringer at a funeral, that can take into account your schedule and location to know when to act politely. Apple and Google have reasons that prevent this kind of app from existing.
Yeah, I've never understood why one of the audible ringtones couldn't be something like 5 vibrations in a row AND THEN comes the loud ringer. Most would feel/hear the vibrations but if they couldn't then the ringer would go off. Obviously there are times when completely silent is preferred, buy why isn't this combo an option?
Actually, I hope many take his advice...Even better buying opportunity for the rest of us.
Missed the /s tag.
Kris from New jesrey I was laying on bed watching TV at 1.45 PM today.At 1.50 I fely and heard a strange sound appearing on my bed below.Later it intensified and felt for more than a two second.It was virtually shaking and I was scared.It cooled down.I tried to reach 911 but the line was already engaged.I could finally reach and the Police enquired if everything was okay.I said it was okay.This was the first time in my life to have experienced the earth quake in this part of the world!
Why would you call 911? Especially since everything was OK? It's more rhetorical since this is an AC but this is sometimes why the lines get tied up in an emergency, clueless people jamming the emergency lines for no reason.
Yeah but how is a 2-4 year old going to add anything to our discussion of politics and philosophy?
Not now, no. But once we advance enough technologically and can actually move around in space with relative easy...
What makes you think we'll ever reach that point?
While Sci-fi stretches the imagination, we don't have unobtanium and never will. There seems to be a relative short time in the lifetime of a species to where they have to advance quickly before the population uses up available resources or scientists make advances in tech. Or it could be we reach such a technological advancement that there is too much power for the individual and due to crazies, leads to catastrophic effects. As it stands now, we are so focused inwardly it will never happen as there is nothing out there worth pursuing at such a great cost.
Not to paraphrase the famous quote but it seems we've gotten a lot of the low hanging fruit in the technological tree and will need to focus our resources (as in many games) purposefully on the next technology tree. But we aren't.
/need more coffee
More importantly, they'd have to give up control of the main entertainment device in most homes
Interesting if true. I would have thought with Hulu and tons of other entertainment that cable's glory days were behind. I'd really like to know the % of homes that still have cable as I'm sure with the economy, many are considering other, cheaper alternatives.I know many that have ditched it in the past couple years and those that do have it, it's mainly b/c of ESPN/sports. At least around here, it is a non-trivial amount to add basic cable to your internet service, let alone any premium packages.
So you're basically calling that judicial system incompetent since they don't look at, you know, the *actual products*? Something tells me that making this kind of a judgement that affects millions of dollars would require a little more scrutiny than looking at a thumbnail pic on a legal sheet. That or you don't know jack about the details of the case and what actually happened and are just slinging soundbites.
"Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people."
- Eleanor Roosevelt
In many regards we have become the latter but it is likely due to the rise of available information in near real time. Not everyone can be a great mind, in fact I'd say we need a mixture of all 3.
We all know this is about the patents. But as Motorola Mobility is not Motorola Solutions, I'm curious to see what patents they actually got or if there are still a lot with the company Motorola Solutions. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola
The SSD costs more than banning Facebook, which will recover an unproductive 3 hours / day.
From my experience, people will have (and need?) downtime during the day whether you get rid of some distractions or not. They will just make other things the distractions in the amount they can get away with and you won't end up with any more throughput and will have decreased morale. Take it from someone that used to study workers behavior as a profession and give the efficiency studies to the employer, we usually throw out the first couple days of data. After a couple days of the inspector checking work times and such, workers go back to their normal routine and ignore the inspector.
That is why it is better to pay for performance and goals than it is for time (where the job allows). Let them manage their own time, just get the job done when it's supposed to be done. (Again not all jobs obviously can be setup this way)
You both are talking about different incidents. There are two different people that were shot. The one the GP is talking about happened a couple of years ago and the video shows him cuffed on the ground on the train platform when one of the officers (surrounded by onlookers) takes out his gun and then it goes off. This is not the same as the guy coming at the officer with the knife.
Id rater listen to him than jesus, what does that tell you?
That idiots post as anonymous cowards on Slashdot.
Now this is starting to remind me of Red Alert. Send out the miners!
I'm gonna go out on a short limb and say your post is fake or you work for a pretty crappy company if worthless changes to tablets and MOAR wifi in phones is all you got. I don't think multiple proxies were needed.
So what you're saying is the now patients have "3 Stooges Syndrome" ala Mr. Burns.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7r3M03v95i0
What I would like to see is something consumers could use that would scan rooms or objects and create them in 3D space ala some of those Kinnect videos, except you know, usable by the common man (or is there already?). Something comparable to what Johnny Chung Lee did with the Wiimote. Put this into the hands of the public and you will have some pretty interesting uses. I'd think it would be perfect for those working in real estate or remodeling, quickly and easily getting a 3D model you could edit.
Same here. Ever since that and that "you can't call us bias" article by Joel is when I stopped and vowed to not return. Unfortunately I have the few times Lifehacker cross links a post but I quickly leave. Can't stand the layout either and there are better sites like Engadget and others out there.
Gala is the best.
No, what I meant was tethering with your iPhone to an iPad that only has Wifi. This was big talk when the iPad came out if you'd be able to connect it to your iPhone or not. This was before ATT allowed tethering though. But since they use the roughly same browser and OS, you wouldn't be detected.
You don't really find a single Higgs boson. You can't detect the Higgs directly. You have to detect its decay processes (usually, a pair of taus or photons), which can also be produced by other processes. You find it statistically: if you get more of those pairs than is accounted for by understood processes, and if the amount of the excess corresponds to the mount of excesses you'd expect from the Higgs, AND if the machine is running at an energy that you'd expect to produce the Higgs, you get to call it a detection.
So you can count up how many Higgs events you thought there were, and then repeat the experiments focusing on the energy range you think the Higgs has. So, it's not quite the "eureka" moment you might hope for, but it's good enough to confirm the Standard Model.
Whether all of that was really "worth it"... well, that's something else altogether.
So what is the actual benefit in finding this theorized particle? So we "find" it by actually only seeing it's after effects, what then? What practical application will it serve or will it just be a stepping stone to finding the next sub atomic particle or some answer to an abstract theory? Wikipedia didn't help much as I'm a typical layman and only took physics in college.
Our last Marriot hotel we stayed at had a large touch screen tv in the lobby, I'm guessing it was 47 or 52. It had a nice overlay of weather, news, local events etc that you could all interact with as you'd expect. Some of the big network morning shows use this as well. I'm not seeing what the big deal is here, is it b/c of it's size? Doesn't MS's Surface scale to just about any size? True, once you get too big your resolution is lacking if you are standing too close.
For iOS? Hell, you're screwed any way you turn.
Unless you are tethering your (wifi) iPad.
Towers are not overloaded, the provider just needs to add more antennas on the tower. Using a land line while at home when you have a cell phone is ridiculous as well. What's the point of wasting an extra $20/month when you don't need it and can just use your cell phone? Less and less people have home phones anymore, just ask any telco. Wifi is not everywhere.
Also, you seem to have a lot of anger towards smartphones, the iPhone in particular. Perhaps you just need more coffee. Now I'll get off your lawn.
It's pretty cool stuff. If there are seasonal cycles like this in the subsurface of Mars, then it is most likely that there are some extreme microbes in there that feed off of this solution...
Emphasis mine. Don't carelessly throw around such descriptions when we are talking about the magnitude of such a find.