I *think* this holds true, but i'm not completely familiar with the APIs yet.
The whole thing is architected around "intents" which are resolved between applications.
My understanding is that after identifying the music it hears, the Shazam application somehow queries the platform to say "I have details about a song, who can use these?" and then the platform lists the amazon mp3 store and the youtube viewer as candidates.
With that in mind, I believe someone could write an app that searches shoutcast playlists for stations that have played the band you just heard recently. When it got it's result, it would then be able to ask the platform which applications can handle mp3 streams and let the user choose how to connect it.
Feel free to correct me, I may be way off base but this seems to hold true.
It does it with the Camera and it's not great. It's fine if you've got a second or two to hold it steady and let the image focus, but it's nowhere even close to the performance of a proper barcode scanner.
I've done a lot of work for a manufacturing facility on the.Net compact framework and Symbols MC3900 platform. It's been absolutely rock solid and a dream to work with. The devices aren't cheap, but I'm impressed by them
It records it from whatever radio station, coffee shop or party that it's being played at. It then analyzes the audio and identifies the band.
However rather than leaving you with a song id, you can buy it on amazon and download straight to your phones music library or you can hop over to youtube and find the video for that song.
I get my music from a mix of sources, sorry for not towing the slashdot corporate boycott line.
However at just about all the places I go across the denver metro area, my wife and I have better signal strength than the rest of her family who are with at&t.
Could be dumb luck, but in the places they claim to have coverage, it's usually very strong.
o2 has 3g coverage for 80% of the country. I find it very hard to believe that the skipped "London" when they were doing that.
T-Mobile UK is delivering a 7.2Mbps connection whereas O2 are still at 3.6Mbps - either way i find it hard to believe that download speed is a major issue.
Still by the time it's got a keyboard, a touch screen, some buttons and a trackball... it feels like it's perhaps over doing it.
Do you think it's ugly in person? Like my last HTC device, it's much nicer in your hand than in pictures.
The integration between the phone and third party apps is wonderful.
When a call comes in that isn't in my phone book, the whitepages app does a reverse number lookup and shows that on screen.
I can use shazam to identify music and then go straight to youtube or the amazon mp3 store to buy or listen to it.
I can scan the barcode of a book, compare the prices at online stores and it'll tell me which local booksellers have it and give me driving directions to the store (although it only seems to work for b&n)
Of course that's all mostly android and not the device.
I've often heard slurs on t-mobile's network but I've been with them in two countries for a total of almost 8 years and their network and customer service have always been great.
I get significantly better coverage in the denver area than my friends on AT&T. They used to be a little lacking in the north of scotland, but i was up there recently and it was greatly improved.
And provided you can get a replacement before another one fails, and it is a good bet you can, and there is no problem
If it's for any kind of business use then I'd strongly recommend keeping hot spares.
I've seen two arrays that have ran for years and then suffered two drive failures in the space of a week, and one of them happened while fedex were enroute with the first replacement.
Fortunately i wasn't in IT there, but some of the engineers in the company posited that one disk was a controller failure and actually unsoldered the faulty controller and replaced it with one from a new drive. Remarkably it came back up.
Backups never seem to be an issue as they will pretty much write blank checks to make sure the data is safe.
Maybe almost true.
Still the thing that bit us in the ass once was the recovery time. A software problem brought down a customers production database.
The backups were running fine, we lost about 2 hours of transactions (which was considered acceptable risk) but it still took about 12 hours to get the whole system working and back online again.
A good solution may not be in the budget, but don't forget to quote the recovery times for different types of backup. Particularly if you are doing some kind of incremental offsite copy - getting that all back onsite in a hurry isn't easy.
The one that almost bit us in the ass was a setup where we had a staging environment that had a few hundred gigs of files that would using rsync to push them out to a handful of webservers across the globe.
The disk array that was on the staging machine failed to come up one day, so rsync dutifully synced up the empty/mnt/staging mount point to all the webservers.
In some backup situations (certainly my personal stuff) it's usually acceptable to tell rsync to never delete stuff on the other end. Sure you can still corrupt one file and propagate the corrupt version, but you are less likely to wholesale blow away your backup.
I think that's probably true of most places. It's hard to get between two regions of edinburgh without at least getting near the center. The same is true of denver/boulder.
In our case that's worked well. I don't work far from the center of boulder and my wife used to take the bus to school in downtown denver.
Star topologies seem pretty typical, even somewhere like london is similar.
I'm originally from scotland and i tend to drive pretty quickly on the motorway and have routinely seen scotrail going faster.
The underground is a pretty easy case - most of them don't have cell coverage, and those that do use dedicated cells in the tunnels and could easily be excluded from analysis.
In a more general case though, the behavior of a train is quite different from the behavior of a car. For the most part they seem to speed up and slow down quite uniformly. Most trains will usually accelerate until they reach the top speed for the track, then hold that speed until they need to slow down to stop. I wish driving were like that.
I take the bus to work in colorado about half the time, it's really quite a reasonable and frequent service given how far out of town i am.
My parents live a similar distance from edinburgh and I can assure you that their public transit is significantly poorer.
I think it gets skewed because most US impressions of europe are of big cities like London and Paris that have exceptional public transport (probably not too unlike NYC either)
I'd expect you could differentiate based on the GPS location, or perhaps just speed. Most passenger trains seem to go a bit faster than typical highway speeds.
The night i'm thinking of was bitterly cold. I was edging down from almost 12000 ft on an ice covered mountain pass.
I probably didn't use the engine for at least 20 minutes and i doubt it was significantly engaged until i hit the interstate which probably took another 10.
No idea what the actual temperature was, but i wouldn't be surprised if it were -20F or so. The car wasn't able to even heat the air going into the cabin. I'd have got my gloves out of the trunk if it weren't for the fear that if i stopped i might never get going again.
Some time (when the roads are quiet), give it a go and see just how far you can get without touching your brakes. Certainly don't put yourself in danger, but if you are observant and plan ahead then you can usually do just fine.
I wonder how new that is. I do this quite a bit and I've noticed that on a really cold night, in my previous car (93 eclipse) that if i freewheeled for 10 or 15 minutes, that the engine temperature would drop right off the scale and all the lights would come on (though it'd keep running fine).
In fact i've found that i often learn how long the red lights are and can really optimize my timing and breeze through them at speeds pretty close to the limit.
Create a bunch of hidden volumes, and fill them up with softcore porn. If they really do challenge you to give them access, you can go ahead and do it and explain that you needed to hide it from your girlfriend.
Unless you area on a watch list then they really won't care to wade through your massive collection of jpegs to find the small amount of important data.
The way your dad looked at it, this Secure Digital Card was your birthright. He'd be damned if any slopes gonna put their greasy yellow hands on his boy's birthright, so he hid it, in the one place he knew he could hide something: his ass. Five long years, he wore this solid state media device up his ass. Then when he died of dysentery, he gave me the memory card. I hid this uncomfortable piece of plastic up my ass for two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give this Sandisk Extreme 8GB SDHC card to you.
What's the point in lying to a law enforcement official that's questioning you? Ultimately you could land yourself in a lot of trouble, and I suspect the better border officials will have a good sense for your body language if you are lying.
Are you really required to hand over keys without a warrant? If its your employers data thats on there then you can surely hide behind a corporate policy that says you can't share your keys without a search warrant.
Honestly, i've traveled in and out of the US numerous times with laptops and never had they even ask me to so much as turn it on. If you have any data so important that it can't possibly be compromised, you probably don't need to be carrying it.
Maybe i've butchered it in my memory. I'm certainly not an assembly coder, i've done small projects in 8051 and x86 before - but being thrown into a windows device driver after the original programmer had quit was really a baptism of fire.
While i never tried altering it, I was able to explain one of the weird behaviors it had so we could work around it in higher level code. Being 17 at the time, I was pretty happy.
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I *think* this holds true, but i'm not completely familiar with the APIs yet.
The whole thing is architected around "intents" which are resolved between applications.
My understanding is that after identifying the music it hears, the Shazam application somehow queries the platform to say "I have details about a song, who can use these?" and then the platform lists the amazon mp3 store and the youtube viewer as candidates.
With that in mind, I believe someone could write an app that searches shoutcast playlists for stations that have played the band you just heard recently. When it got it's result, it would then be able to ask the platform which applications can handle mp3 streams and let the user choose how to connect it.
Feel free to correct me, I may be way off base but this seems to hold true.
The g1 can be unlocked. Apparently people have succeeded by calling and asking nicely.
Of course we could just go to germany or the netherlands since i think t-mo carry both phones there.
In fact, they seem like they'd have been the sensible choice for apple all round. They must have the furthest reaching network of anyone out there.
It does it with the Camera and it's not great. It's fine if you've got a second or two to hold it steady and let the image focus, but it's nowhere even close to the performance of a proper barcode scanner.
I've done a lot of work for a manufacturing facility on the .Net compact framework and Symbols MC3900 platform. It's been absolutely rock solid and a dream to work with. The devices aren't cheap, but I'm impressed by them
It records it from whatever radio station, coffee shop or party that it's being played at. It then analyzes the audio and identifies the band.
However rather than leaving you with a song id, you can buy it on amazon and download straight to your phones music library or you can hop over to youtube and find the video for that song.
I get my music from a mix of sources, sorry for not towing the slashdot corporate boycott line.
I guess YMMV.
However at just about all the places I go across the denver metro area, my wife and I have better signal strength than the rest of her family who are with at&t.
Could be dumb luck, but in the places they claim to have coverage, it's usually very strong.
o2 has 3g coverage for 80% of the country. I find it very hard to believe that the skipped "London" when they were doing that.
T-Mobile UK is delivering a 7.2Mbps connection whereas O2 are still at 3.6Mbps - either way i find it hard to believe that download speed is a major issue.
Quite why they didn't use wifi - i dont know
I think you are on the wrong site
I didn't think i would, but it's a nice touch.
Still by the time it's got a keyboard, a touch screen, some buttons and a trackball... it feels like it's perhaps over doing it.
Do you think it's ugly in person? Like my last HTC device, it's much nicer in your hand than in pictures.
The integration between the phone and third party apps is wonderful.
When a call comes in that isn't in my phone book, the whitepages app does a reverse number lookup and shows that on screen.
I can use shazam to identify music and then go straight to youtube or the amazon mp3 store to buy or listen to it.
I can scan the barcode of a book, compare the prices at online stores and it'll tell me which local booksellers have it and give me driving directions to the store (although it only seems to work for b&n)
Of course that's all mostly android and not the device.
I've often heard slurs on t-mobile's network but I've been with them in two countries for a total of almost 8 years and their network and customer service have always been great.
I get significantly better coverage in the denver area than my friends on AT&T. They used to be a little lacking in the north of scotland, but i was up there recently and it was greatly improved.
I just talked to them to find out when mine is supposed to ship. Apparently the shipped out about 35,000 of them yesterday and almost 60,000 today.
That just came from a regular call center rep, but if it's true then they are making quite an impact given how little hype there is in the real world.
And provided you can get a replacement before another one fails, and it is a good bet you can, and there is no problem
If it's for any kind of business use then I'd strongly recommend keeping hot spares.
I've seen two arrays that have ran for years and then suffered two drive failures in the space of a week, and one of them happened while fedex were enroute with the first replacement.
Fortunately i wasn't in IT there, but some of the engineers in the company posited that one disk was a controller failure and actually unsoldered the faulty controller and replaced it with one from a new drive. Remarkably it came back up.
Backups never seem to be an issue as they will pretty much write blank checks to make sure the data is safe.
Maybe almost true.
Still the thing that bit us in the ass once was the recovery time. A software problem brought down a customers production database.
The backups were running fine, we lost about 2 hours of transactions (which was considered acceptable risk) but it still took about 12 hours to get the whole system working and back online again.
A good solution may not be in the budget, but don't forget to quote the recovery times for different types of backup. Particularly if you are doing some kind of incremental offsite copy - getting that all back onsite in a hurry isn't easy.
The one that almost bit us in the ass was a setup where we had a staging environment that had a few hundred gigs of files that would using rsync to push them out to a handful of webservers across the globe.
The disk array that was on the staging machine failed to come up one day, so rsync dutifully synced up the empty /mnt/staging mount point to all the webservers.
In some backup situations (certainly my personal stuff) it's usually acceptable to tell rsync to never delete stuff on the other end. Sure you can still corrupt one file and propagate the corrupt version, but you are less likely to wholesale blow away your backup.
I think that's probably true of most places. It's hard to get between two regions of edinburgh without at least getting near the center. The same is true of denver/boulder.
In our case that's worked well. I don't work far from the center of boulder and my wife used to take the bus to school in downtown denver.
Star topologies seem pretty typical, even somewhere like london is similar.
I'm originally from scotland and i tend to drive pretty quickly on the motorway and have routinely seen scotrail going faster.
The underground is a pretty easy case - most of them don't have cell coverage, and those that do use dedicated cells in the tunnels and could easily be excluded from analysis.
In a more general case though, the behavior of a train is quite different from the behavior of a car. For the most part they seem to speed up and slow down quite uniformly. Most trains will usually accelerate until they reach the top speed for the track, then hold that speed until they need to slow down to stop. I wish driving were like that.
I take the bus to work in colorado about half the time, it's really quite a reasonable and frequent service given how far out of town i am.
My parents live a similar distance from edinburgh and I can assure you that their public transit is significantly poorer.
I think it gets skewed because most US impressions of europe are of big cities like London and Paris that have exceptional public transport (probably not too unlike NYC either)
I'd expect you could differentiate based on the GPS location, or perhaps just speed. Most passenger trains seem to go a bit faster than typical highway speeds.
The night i'm thinking of was bitterly cold. I was edging down from almost 12000 ft on an ice covered mountain pass.
I probably didn't use the engine for at least 20 minutes and i doubt it was significantly engaged until i hit the interstate which probably took another 10.
No idea what the actual temperature was, but i wouldn't be surprised if it were -20F or so. The car wasn't able to even heat the air going into the cabin. I'd have got my gloves out of the trunk if it weren't for the fear that if i stopped i might never get going again.
Some time (when the roads are quiet), give it a go and see just how far you can get without touching your brakes. Certainly don't put yourself in danger, but if you are observant and plan ahead then you can usually do just fine.
I wonder how new that is. I do this quite a bit and I've noticed that on a really cold night, in my previous car (93 eclipse) that if i freewheeled for 10 or 15 minutes, that the engine temperature would drop right off the scale and all the lights would come on (though it'd keep running fine).
I never saw it do that any other time.
In fact i've found that i often learn how long the red lights are and can really optimize my timing and breeze through them at speeds pretty close to the limit.
I've observed the same SUV issue, its' great
Create a bunch of hidden volumes, and fill them up with softcore porn. If they really do challenge you to give them access, you can go ahead and do it and explain that you needed to hide it from your girlfriend.
Unless you area on a watch list then they really won't care to wade through your massive collection of jpegs to find the small amount of important data.
The way your dad looked at it, this Secure Digital Card was your birthright. He'd be damned if any slopes gonna put their greasy yellow hands on his boy's birthright, so he hid it, in the one place he knew he could hide something: his ass. Five long years, he wore this solid state media device up his ass. Then when he died of dysentery, he gave me the memory card. I hid this uncomfortable piece of plastic up my ass for two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, little man, I give this Sandisk Extreme 8GB SDHC card to you.
What's the point in lying to a law enforcement official that's questioning you? Ultimately you could land yourself in a lot of trouble, and I suspect the better border officials will have a good sense for your body language if you are lying.
Are you really required to hand over keys without a warrant? If its your employers data thats on there then you can surely hide behind a corporate policy that says you can't share your keys without a search warrant.
Honestly, i've traveled in and out of the US numerous times with laptops and never had they even ask me to so much as turn it on. If you have any data so important that it can't possibly be compromised, you probably don't need to be carrying it.
Maybe i've butchered it in my memory. I'm certainly not an assembly coder, i've done small projects in 8051 and x86 before - but being thrown into a windows device driver after the original programmer had quit was really a baptism of fire.
While i never tried altering it, I was able to explain one of the weird behaviors it had so we could work around it in higher level code. Being 17 at the time, I was pretty happy.