You'll need a specialized client to trap this information with a barcode scanner, buffer and really good QR read times. And then what? What is gained using this method for file distribution vs. downloading from one of the bazzilion free web file hosting sites?
It would could far less than incident analysis and cleanup to provide dedicated machines for external web use. Companies and agencies that tollerate occasional surfing should have machines that do not share the internal network.
Honestly, if they can't keep up they shouldn't even pretend. I'm sick of cars that have overworked electronics that are just waiting to fail. I don't want my car to be a computer.
I'd like to see a car maker have the courage to go in the opposite direction - simpler engineering that's easier and more affordable to maintain over the life of a vehicle.
Back in the 50's and 60's it was much easier for a kid to pop the hood and learn to tear down and rebuild an engine. Now it requires specialized tools. You don't see as many self taught gearheads.
There is a saying in Washington "Never let a good disaster go to waste".
If people haven't already spoken out in outrage "Never let this happen again!" it's easy enought to get polling data to justify a new power grab.
Before 2001 nobody ever hear the US Govt use terms like "homeland". Now it's in everyday use. Homeland Security. I've always thought it sounded facist.
... they're best designed for workers or students to operate within a radius of a mile or two which is why you see lots of security people use them at larger companies or campuses.
You can't get groceries in a Segway. You can't pick up the kids after school. If the weather changes unexpectedly you'll have a misserable ride. Segways are expensive and would make attractive targets for theft. You can buy a decent bicycle or even a motorcyle for far less. People change their plans during the course of a typical day and a Segway restricts their flexability in ways a car doesn't.
The people who seem most likely to use a Segway for personal use are people who don't like or have difficulty walking. Ironicly these are the people most likely to be injured by a Segway mishap.
>> Dawn Kawamoto: "But, really, do new dads think it's worth crying over? Hmmm...changing diapers or cleaning up code — both are messy, but one smells less."
How very condescending. You really think all dads dread the responsibilities of parenthood?
It's a bit of hair splitting but with the keyboard and 10inch screen it's more of a netbook. My real point was the head of BB is talking about dying form factors in the market. The market would consider this to be either a netbook or a tablet, but few people would look at this and think laptop.
But functionally I get what you're saying, especially since when using the keyboard I usually have a bluetooth mouse paired to it. I am using it in a defacto laptop mode 70-80 percent of the time. (BTW - The laptop that's collecting dust is a dell running Fedora 16. My wife has the only Windows machine in the house.)
IMHO the tablet is what laptop owners originally wanted - a casual use device that does core daily use tasks. It's far more mobile. There's no setup, you don't need to be sitting to use it. You can walk and glace at it for a quick update. The better tablets have longer time between recharge than a typical laptop. And you're right about the multimedia and gaming aspects being a big draw.
Bottom line - when the head of BB tries to predict the future most people would be wise not factor it into their investment decisions
I've had several smart phones but recently picked up my first tablet. I do most of my smart phone stuff on the tablet now. I'm now looking at the end of my current cell contract and realizing I'd be better off going to a basic cell.
I have an Asus Transformer TF700T tablet with a detachable keyboard. I can VNC remote desktop. I can access SMB shares. I can game, surf, and do stuff I never would do on a phone (or Blackberry).
The thing in my house that's collecting dust? My old dell laptop. If I need to do real work I'm on my desktop. It's been months since I opened the screen on my laptop. I'm going to wipe it and give it to the kids. There's your dying form factor.
Now that there are hundreds of millions of dollars is film deals being made the Hollywood powers that be will make whatever movie they want and don't care about a bunch of books that were written years ago.
The clock is ticking for local over the air affiliates anyway. In a few years expect all the big players like Viacom, NBCUniversal, Fox, Disney, etc... to focus on becoming "apps" with content stores or subscriber libraries. There are constant rumors of HBO GO waiving the cable subscriber requirement and becoming a Netflix or Hulu. Premium channels are not going to standby much longer and watch Amazon Prime and other services steal "their audience". They will get in the game and it will by the end of the status quo for cable tv.
Smaller local news affiliates will become an afterthought. They will need to figure out how to survive as the business model continues to shift to streaming.
When god punished Cain for killing Able he placed a mark upon Cain as a warning to "others". The nature of the mark is never described in detail and is the subject of much speculation - was it a scar, skin color, etc...?
The more interesting question is who are the "others"? At this point in Genesis there are only supposed to be Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel, Seth and some unnamed wives and children. What "Others?"
Fundamentalists don't like having that one pointed out.
"Well, maybe god went out and created more men from dirt and took their ribs too..."
Hey, Bible Guy, if I don't get to read between the lines in Genesis you don't get to either.
There is no shortage of low end tablets. A 35 dollar tablet is just going to carry the same stigma as the Coby and Archos products. I wouldn't even give these devices to a kid as a toy because they're buggy and barely have the specs to run Android.
People who can't shell out for an iPad have plenty of mid-range tablets to choose from by Asus, Samsung and Sony, not to mention the Kindle Fire is a pretty decent tablet when rooted and flashed with Cyanogen.
I'm sure the good people of New York will tell you Obama learned from Bush's mistakes and was careful to have a more coordinated response when a major hurricane happened on his watch. The people of Staten Island were well cared for in a timely manner in spite of the pressures of election day politics.
I read the claims. The promise and the reality of most VR hardware are two different things. The fact there are eyepieces is not something that will be comfortable over a long gaming session. I find it difficult to imagine wearing them to be different than looking through binoculars (which most people will futz with continuously to make them 'fit')
In every VR headset I've tried the eyes must stay aimed mostly forward with very limited range of movement which is very unnatural and uncomfortable. They also use fisheye lenses with quickly deliver a blistering migraine.
Slashdot Mirror
I'm not quite a neckbeard but you are four years older than my children.
Once I'm done remodeling my basement it will be a very nice place to post to slashdot from.
You'll need a specialized client to trap this information with a barcode scanner, buffer and really good QR read times. And then what? What is gained using this method for file distribution vs. downloading from one of the bazzilion free web file hosting sites?
It would could far less than incident analysis and cleanup to provide dedicated machines for external web use. Companies and agencies that tollerate occasional surfing should have machines that do not share the internal network.
Honestly, if they can't keep up they shouldn't even pretend. I'm sick of cars that have overworked electronics that are just waiting to fail. I don't want my car to be a computer.
I'd like to see a car maker have the courage to go in the opposite direction - simpler engineering that's easier and more affordable to maintain over the life of a vehicle.
Back in the 50's and 60's it was much easier for a kid to pop the hood and learn to tear down and rebuild an engine. Now it requires specialized tools. You don't see as many self taught gearheads.
There is a saying in Washington "Never let a good disaster go to waste".
If people haven't already spoken out in outrage "Never let this happen again!" it's easy enought to get polling data to justify a new power grab.
Before 2001 nobody ever hear the US Govt use terms like "homeland". Now it's in everyday use. Homeland Security. I've always thought it sounded facist.
... they're best designed for workers or students to operate within a radius of a mile or two which is why you see lots of security people use them at larger companies or campuses.
You can't get groceries in a Segway. You can't pick up the kids after school. If the weather changes unexpectedly you'll have a misserable ride. Segways are expensive and would make attractive targets for theft. You can buy a decent bicycle or even a motorcyle for far less. People change their plans during the course of a typical day and a Segway restricts their flexability in ways a car doesn't.
The people who seem most likely to use a Segway for personal use are people who don't like or have difficulty walking. Ironicly these are the people most likely to be injured by a Segway mishap.
...And we had twins.
>> Dawn Kawamoto: "But, really, do new dads think it's worth crying over? Hmmm...changing diapers or cleaning up code — both are messy, but one smells less."
How very condescending. You really think all dads dread the responsibilities of parenthood?
It's a bit of hair splitting but with the keyboard and 10inch screen it's more of a netbook. My real point was the head of BB is talking about dying form factors in the market. The market would consider this to be either a netbook or a tablet, but few people would look at this and think laptop.
But functionally I get what you're saying, especially since when using the keyboard I usually have a bluetooth mouse paired to it. I am using it in a defacto laptop mode 70-80 percent of the time. (BTW - The laptop that's collecting dust is a dell running Fedora 16. My wife has the only Windows machine in the house.)
IMHO the tablet is what laptop owners originally wanted - a casual use device that does core daily use tasks. It's far more mobile. There's no setup, you don't need to be sitting to use it. You can walk and glace at it for a quick update. The better tablets have longer time between recharge than a typical laptop. And you're right about the multimedia and gaming aspects being a big draw.
Bottom line - when the head of BB tries to predict the future most people would be wise not factor it into their investment decisions
I've had several smart phones but recently picked up my first tablet. I do most of my smart phone stuff on the tablet now. I'm now looking at the end of my current cell contract and realizing I'd be better off going to a basic cell.
I have an Asus Transformer TF700T tablet with a detachable keyboard. I can VNC remote desktop. I can access SMB shares. I can game, surf, and do stuff I never would do on a phone (or Blackberry).
The thing in my house that's collecting dust? My old dell laptop. If I need to do real work I'm on my desktop. It's been months since I opened the screen on my laptop. I'm going to wipe it and give it to the kids. There's your dying form factor.
"Don't Panic" was not written in big friendly letters.
The only people struggling more in the phone market is Microsoft.
Nobody walks onto the sales floor at verizon and asks for a blackberry. BB is the phone you are issued at work.
A few months with a new product are not enough to turn BB around. IT and telephony departments everywhere are moving away to other platforms.
>"Perhaps the decade long dearth of any good television is nearing its end!"
Excuse me, but there's some damn good TV in the last ten years, including but not limited to:
Sons of Anarchy
Game of Thrones
Doctor Who
Boardwalk Empire
Battlestar Galactica
Justice League Unlimited
Dexter
Spartacus
Now that there are hundreds of millions of dollars is film deals being made the Hollywood powers that be will make whatever movie they want and don't care about a bunch of books that were written years ago.
Part of the confusion is there really has never been a clear definition of "console", it is a rather vague and overly broad term.
footnote: Before anyone says it I know NBC and Fox are partners on Hulu. I'm just saying expect more of that.
The clock is ticking for local over the air affiliates anyway. In a few years expect all the big players like Viacom, NBCUniversal, Fox, Disney, etc... to focus on becoming "apps" with content stores or subscriber libraries. There are constant rumors of HBO GO waiving the cable subscriber requirement and becoming a Netflix or Hulu. Premium channels are not going to standby much longer and watch Amazon Prime and other services steal "their audience". They will get in the game and it will by the end of the status quo for cable tv.
Smaller local news affiliates will become an afterthought. They will need to figure out how to survive as the business model continues to shift to streaming.
Drag Racing!
Jesus only rode the mightiest of dinosaurs. Don't be sacrilegious.
1) Jesus was a carpenter.
2) Carpenters build ladders.
3) You need a ladder to get into the saddle of a dinosaur.
It's scientrific!
When god punished Cain for killing Able he placed a mark upon Cain as a warning to "others". The nature of the mark is never described in detail and is the subject of much speculation - was it a scar, skin color, etc...?
The more interesting question is who are the "others"? At this point in Genesis there are only supposed to be Adam, Eve, Cain, Abel, Seth and some unnamed wives and children. What "Others?"
Fundamentalists don't like having that one pointed out.
"Well, maybe god went out and created more men from dirt and took their ribs too..."
Hey, Bible Guy, if I don't get to read between the lines in Genesis you don't get to either.
There is no shortage of low end tablets. A 35 dollar tablet is just going to carry the same stigma as the Coby and Archos products. I wouldn't even give these devices to a kid as a toy because they're buggy and barely have the specs to run Android.
People who can't shell out for an iPad have plenty of mid-range tablets to choose from by Asus, Samsung and Sony, not to mention the Kindle Fire is a pretty decent tablet when rooted and flashed with Cyanogen.
I'm sure the good people of New York will tell you Obama learned from Bush's mistakes and was careful to have a more coordinated response when a major hurricane happened on his watch. The people of Staten Island were well cared for in a timely manner in spite of the pressures of election day politics.
Oh, wait...
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I read the claims. The promise and the reality of most VR hardware are two different things. The fact there are eyepieces is not something that will be comfortable over a long gaming session. I find it difficult to imagine wearing them to be different than looking through binoculars (which most people will futz with continuously to make them 'fit')
In every VR headset I've tried the eyes must stay aimed mostly forward with very limited range of movement which is very unnatural and uncomfortable. They also use fisheye lenses with quickly deliver a blistering migraine.
Your example is considerably more appropriate. He just couldn't be bothered to acknowledge a father doing something nice and went into snark mode.