Baseball cap plus iPhone-mounting clip to the bill, with second iPhone or iPod Touch in pocket, each running an app that maps touches on one to the interface on the other.
Just needs Apple to either allow background apps or an app that can run other apps.
I'd much rather use the glasses as an accessory than have a whole other iPhone clipped to my head. I can't see through the other iPhone, and even if you use the camera to show me what's behind the bill-mounted phone, it'll drain the battery. Why I would want a second iPhone to control the first is beyond me - I know right now those glasses + accessories cost way more than an iPhone, but they're much less cumbersome.
Plus, to be honest, I just don't like the iPhone enough to own two.;-)
If you exclude the fact that we are talking about "operating system" as opposed to "applications software" there has been software written and distributed with all sorts of "pay to enable" functionalities for more than four decades. These patents that attempt to make the old into new by adding "on the internet" or "in an operating system" is pretty deceptive and shouldn't be considered any sort of newness or novel additive. Of course all software patents should be invalidated to begin with.
That looks seriously cool. Now, if it can work wirelessly with an iPhone (or similar device), include the camera and head tracking attachments, you have an entire platform for augmented reality right there.
I suppose if you needed extra horsepower, you could put straps on a laptop and wear it as a backpack...
Open browser window; comes with tab with about:blank/bookmarks view/FastDial/whatever.
Browse to site; site becomes new tab group, which appears just as a tab does now.
Follow link on site to different domain (or when modifier clicking) -> New "subtab" opens up (i.e. new tab, automatically added to current group, in background if preferred)
Modifier-click on link -> Open link in whole new new tab group
"New Tab" magically becomes "new tab group", which lets you start from step 1.
Clicking on a tab drops down a menu (basically "stretches" the tab out into a vertical list) of all grouped sites - right-clicking on any of them gives you Live Bookmarking options, auto-refresh options, etc
I'm not being sarcastic. You're telling us your productivity flow involves 120+ simultaneous web views. Your workflow is what's broken, not the browser.
This is exactly a problem that a lot of users these days have. You see, when they make a new browser window, that makes a tab in the Windows taskbar, that makes a whole new, separate object on their screen; it feels like a whole other program. Tabs are too convenient for most users, they just create them and think that they don't take up any memory if they're not focused.
A friend of mine was having problems with Firefox being slow, and I asked her if she had been doing updates - she replied no, because if she had closed the window, she would have lost all her "sites"...as it turns out, she had over 150 tabs open, and didn't bother to bookmark anything. As you might imagine, she was one of those users who was surprised that this was bad for her computer...
Once you start getting to half wavelength objects the cloaking turns to crap, and only works for a very very thin bandwidth. That wouldn't be very helpful for visible cloaking, because we see a wide range of wavelengths.
What metamaterials MAY be useful is radar cloaking.
Can't someone just invent wide-band radar to get around that?
I would argue in the reverse - Twitter is useless as a "microblog" and a discussion platform, but it's great for status messages and location updates. Also, if you prefer to not tell everyone where you are - don't tweet it.
The problem is that people are starting to use it for things beyond it's intended purpose, like blogging about their lives as they happen, etc. Couple that with the fact that away messages already exist for Facebook, Live!/AIM, and IRC, and you really don't need Twitter other than a centralized updating platform which can coordinate between multiple channels, even most of the time it's pretty weak at even that.
So basically this new thing is useless in that it only gives a poor approximation of how many people go where
Compounded by the fact that you have no idea where their starting location actually was (unless you can somehow dig that out of their tweets as well - not everyone was starting from "home", not everyone updated their home location after moving, etc) and this was basically an attempt to pull data out of meaningless information.
that being said, it's interesting to think of what could actually be culled from Twitter feeds, but I'd never attempt to do anything useful with it.
A good portion of us spend all day building/operating data centers, and the rest of us likely spend our day writing software that will go in those data centers in some fashion or other - forgive us if we hear LEGO and take a short break to go "WHEEEEEEEEEEEEE I LOVES THOSE"
It doesn't take a/.er of even average intelligence to see that your argument makes you just as bad as the fanboys, just in the opposite sense (which is not exactly the place you think it is).
"I don't like it because it's Apple and they make expensive stuff and they listen to companies they want to partner with, and make compromises based on listening to the terms their partners want to set!" Oh fuck, not that!
Twitter has a very well known brand-name, probably about half of which comes from people bitching about it, or cracking jokes ("ok poop is coming out"). The application itself is nothing short of a status message, which where defined as early as May, 1993 (RFC 1459, Section 5.1) or earlier (RFC 742, December 1977 - finger w/plan), and there are dozens of "microblogging" sites out there already.
If anyone buys Twitter, it will only be for the most over hyped and thus well-known up-and-coming brand names of the last couple years.
They'll have to. Their business model depends on being able to "compete" with lower prices by cheating on their taxes. Money which could have been used to keep your children healthy, or educate them, or yes, even fight terrorism. What's worse, they did it so much that now the apparently depend on it.
If you can't make a profit playing by the rules then stop trying to make a profit and die. That's how the system is supposed to work, isn't it? (Whether or not that's a dumb idea is an entirely different debate...)
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it prevents people from going 80 in a 55 zone, I'm all for it.
If you think you can prevent people from doing 80 in a 55 (or 90 in a 65) then you, sir, have never driven on the Massachusetts Turnpike.
Baseball cap plus iPhone-mounting clip to the bill, with second iPhone or iPod Touch in pocket, each running an app that maps touches on one to the interface on the other.
Just needs Apple to either allow background apps or an app that can run other apps.
I'd much rather use the glasses as an accessory than have a whole other iPhone clipped to my head. I can't see through the other iPhone, and even if you use the camera to show me what's behind the bill-mounted phone, it'll drain the battery. Why I would want a second iPhone to control the first is beyond me - I know right now those glasses + accessories cost way more than an iPhone, but they're much less cumbersome.
Plus, to be honest, I just don't like the iPhone enough to own two. ;-)
If you exclude the fact that we are talking about "operating system" as opposed to "applications software" there has been software written and distributed with all sorts of "pay to enable" functionalities for more than four decades. These patents that attempt to make the old into new by adding "on the internet" or "in an operating system" is pretty deceptive and shouldn't be considered any sort of newness or novel additive. Of course all software patents should be invalidated to begin with.
FTFY
floppy sections of their variable regions that allowed them to reach down to contact hidden epitopes
Best. Euphemism. Ever.
Indeed! This euphemism is SO good, it has the potential to cure AIDS!
That looks seriously cool. Now, if it can work wirelessly with an iPhone (or similar device), include the camera and head tracking attachments, you have an entire platform for augmented reality right there.
I suppose if you needed extra horsepower, you could put straps on a laptop and wear it as a backpack...
Was that so hard?
I'm not being sarcastic. You're telling us your productivity flow involves 120+ simultaneous web views. Your workflow is what's broken, not the browser.
This is exactly a problem that a lot of users these days have. You see, when they make a new browser window, that makes a tab in the Windows taskbar, that makes a whole new, separate object on their screen; it feels like a whole other program. Tabs are too convenient for most users, they just create them and think that they don't take up any memory if they're not focused.
A friend of mine was having problems with Firefox being slow, and I asked her if she had been doing updates - she replied no, because if she had closed the window, she would have lost all her "sites"...as it turns out, she had over 150 tabs open, and didn't bother to bookmark anything. As you might imagine, she was one of those users who was surprised that this was bad for her computer...
They could be really good, but so far they've mostly been nothing but flashy and uncreative.
I just got that obnoxious song out of my head, and now they want to put the whole game in there? No thanks!
Once you start getting to half wavelength objects the cloaking turns to crap, and only works for a very very thin bandwidth. That wouldn't be very helpful for visible cloaking, because we see a wide range of wavelengths.
What metamaterials MAY be useful is radar cloaking.
Can't someone just invent wide-band radar to get around that?
I would argue in the reverse - Twitter is useless as a "microblog" and a discussion platform, but it's great for status messages and location updates. Also, if you prefer to not tell everyone where you are - don't tweet it.
The problem is that people are starting to use it for things beyond it's intended purpose, like blogging about their lives as they happen, etc. Couple that with the fact that away messages already exist for Facebook, Live!/AIM, and IRC, and you really don't need Twitter other than a centralized updating platform which can coordinate between multiple channels, even most of the time it's pretty weak at even that.
So basically this new thing is useless in that it only gives a poor approximation of how many people go where
Compounded by the fact that you have no idea where their starting location actually was (unless you can somehow dig that out of their tweets as well - not everyone was starting from "home", not everyone updated their home location after moving, etc) and this was basically an attempt to pull data out of meaningless information.
that being said, it's interesting to think of what could actually be culled from Twitter feeds, but I'd never attempt to do anything useful with it.
You had me until "Microsoft"...
NetBSD advocates claiming you trashed their "7-million lines of new code" in 3...2...1...
Oh my God, will everyone stop talking about LEGO and... Oh, you DID talk about data centers.
A good portion of us spend all day building/operating data centers, and the rest of us likely spend our day writing software that will go in those data centers in some fashion or other - forgive us if we hear LEGO and take a short break to go "WHEEEEEEEEEEEEE I LOVES THOSE"
geekoid almost took the win on that before this home run. I salute you, sir.
All geeks ever do is argue anymore. That does it! Someone build one NOW.
It doesn't take a /.er of even average intelligence to see that your argument makes you just as bad as the fanboys, just in the opposite sense (which is not exactly the place you think it is).
"I don't like it because it's Apple and they make expensive stuff and they listen to companies they want to partner with, and make compromises based on listening to the terms their partners want to set!" Oh fuck, not that!
Apple is known for pricing high and honestly from the start, not for bait-and-switch. You're looking for Redmond, which is about 855 miles north.
Twitter has a very well known brand-name, probably about half of which comes from people bitching about it, or cracking jokes ("ok poop is coming out"). The application itself is nothing short of a status message, which where defined as early as May, 1993 (RFC 1459, Section 5.1) or earlier (RFC 742, December 1977 - finger w/plan), and there are dozens of "microblogging" sites out there already.
If anyone buys Twitter, it will only be for the most over hyped and thus well-known up-and-coming brand names of the last couple years.
oh you mean her other guns. Definitely fake.
No, we're actually referring to her torpedoes.
They'll have to. Their business model depends on being able to "compete" with lower prices by cheating on their taxes. Money which could have been used to keep your children healthy, or educate them, or yes, even fight terrorism. What's worse, they did it so much that now the apparently depend on it.
If you can't make a profit playing by the rules then stop trying to make a profit and die. That's how the system is supposed to work, isn't it? (Whether or not that's a dumb idea is an entirely different debate...)
Goat poo isn't as bad as cow pies or dog crap.. It's mostly small hardened pellets that deform or crumble rather than stick or squish.
Apparently goats get to enjoy a lot more Quiznos' than I do...
So what you're saying is you'd rather have the Egyptians kill Colbert?
PERENSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!! *shakes fist*