But many of the issues that are raising in the US as conservative vs liberal are not in the same camp when in other countries. Gun control is a prime example. In Australia the strict gun control laws were put in place by the strongly conservative party. Also minimum wage legislation was introduced by Deakin in 1904 who was the leader of the then right wing party.
Google Glass failed because they were lame. Not in an appearance sense, though they were that too, but in a completely rubbish pointless piece of equipment way.
The design was just so bad, the interface so poor, the usage cases so non-existent.
But if you gave me a pair of sunnys with a transparent overlay, where I was seeing through the display rather than up and off to the side to an opaque little box then there might be a usage case.
Lets say there were 650k emails on the system. Then they do a filter which has something like Hilary.clinton@. That brings it down. Lets say to 20,000 emails. Next they did a simple compare of every email they already had vs the ones on the system. That left 1 to 2 thousand. Those are processed by a team of people.
Because radio signals can be degraded completely. With UAVs at least they have altitude and clearer lines of sight to repeaters and directional laser systems. A tank rolling through a forest or city streets doesn't have that luxury.
And I'm sure you're handicapped son could use Hangouts in exactly the same way. Doesn't answer why I would want to install it on my android phone though.
That said focus on iMessage seems to be a US centric issue
Hangouts does everything you describe. It's what I use all the time. It is seamless across my phone and table and my PC. And it is seamless across windows, linux and apple.
It is seamless between SMS and the internal delivery system, and the conversations are synced to my gmail account allowing me to search them.
Fair enough. I think experiences vary then as I haven't found any noticeable differences between countries based on tipping. In the US sometimes I get good service sometimes I don't. Australia, UK & Europe are all non-tipping and there are big variations in service depending on the person. Japan is a country where I consistently get good service, but tipping someone there is insulting them. I honestly can't say I got better service in the US.
Ambulance transfers are free in Australia, I hadn't even thought of that. So how does that work? You picked up off the road and they ask for your credit card?
I guess because you tend to understand the nuances of your own culture if you live there.
Where I live you don't tip unless the service has been absolutely spectacular. As it crazy way above and beyond. I cannot actually remember the last time I tipped.
Holy shit are you kidding?!?! $11k for appendicitis???
I knew the US medical system was a mess but that is crazy! My medical insurance is the top everything and it costs me $146 a fortnight for my family of 4. I was involved in a motorcycle accidents that crushed my collar bone and badly dislocated and broke my wrist. The collar bone was just a plate but the wrist required 4 hours of surgery, 6 screws, a plate, 2 k-wires (otherwise called nails), and 6 months of rehab. I was out of pocket about US$300, and that was because I decided I wanted to go to a private hospital rather than a fully free public hospital because they were running 4 days ahead....
It's also hard for tourists who come from a non-tipping culture. When I go to the US tips are clearly expected, but I have no basis for judging what the should be, or which industries deserve / expect them.
I'm honestly not sure. They are always referred to as Lithium Poly. Claimed power density is 0.15-0.17kw/kg. They are 4 cells in parallel and operate at 16v
I strap propellers to 1300mah lipos and drain them at rates exceeding 100amps. I will drain said Lipo in approximately 180 seconds. Sometimes less. And when they land they are often exceeding 60c.
Not only that but I will often slam them into hard surfaces, trees, rocks, or pieces of plastic that are rotating at 30,000 rpm +. Despite this I have yet to have a single one spontaneously go up in flames. I have seen the after effects of over charging lipos when people decided to charge them to too high a voltage or charge them too fast. But if you treat them inside their design specs they are very unlikely to ever cause you a problem.
I believe Niantic have about 30 employees. Those employees will predominately be developers of their various games and skilled in that type of work. What they are probably not very good at is detailed data analytics.
So what do you do if you're a business and you need a skillset and toolset that you don't have and you need? You hire another business that provides the skillset and toolset that you need. Just like hiring a plumber.
So I don't read this as them giving the data away at all. I read this as "we need to know something but don't know how to get that from our data, so lets get XYZ company in to help"
Slashdot Mirror
I get it slashdot is american blah blah blah.
But many of the issues that are raising in the US as conservative vs liberal are not in the same camp when in other countries. Gun control is a prime example. In Australia the strict gun control laws were put in place by the strongly conservative party. Also minimum wage legislation was introduced by Deakin in 1904 who was the leader of the then right wing party.
LinkedIn is very very well monetised. And it is on a recurring subscription basis.
Agreed it would limit the market massively if you can't use it if you need to wear corrective glasses.
That said I don't know enough about optics to know if there is a way to correct for it with a transparent display.
Is there a way you can use the microsoft hololens? Alternatively perhaps you wear contacts?
Google Glass failed because they were lame. Not in an appearance sense, though they were that too, but in a completely rubbish pointless piece of equipment way.
The design was just so bad, the interface so poor, the usage cases so non-existent.
But if you gave me a pair of sunnys with a transparent overlay, where I was seeing through the display rather than up and off to the side to an opaque little box then there might be a usage case.
How do they criticize countries that control their borders? Everything I've seen is them pushing tighter border control on others
Lets say there were 650k emails on the system. Then they do a filter which has something like Hilary.clinton@. That brings it down. Lets say to 20,000 emails. Next they did a simple compare of every email they already had vs the ones on the system. That left 1 to 2 thousand. Those are processed by a team of people.
Because radio signals can be degraded completely. With UAVs at least they have altitude and clearer lines of sight to repeaters and directional laser systems. A tank rolling through a forest or city streets doesn't have that luxury.
Ah thanks. So it actually removes them from the SMS network all together at the point of send.
How would they intercept them? Aren't SMS delivered to your device and then handled from there?
Doubt it will make any difference.
The pixel has arrived at just the right time to pick up all those note owners.
And I'm sure you're handicapped son could use Hangouts in exactly the same way. Doesn't answer why I would want to install it on my android phone though.
That said focus on iMessage seems to be a US centric issue
Hangouts does everything you describe. It's what I use all the time. It is seamless across my phone and table and my PC. And it is seamless across windows, linux and apple.
It is seamless between SMS and the internal delivery system, and the conversations are synced to my gmail account allowing me to search them.
I think it might be a country thing.... More people own high end android phones here in Aus than iPhone.
Is the market rate of iPhones really that high in the US?
Apple holds about 30% of the smart phone new sales in Aus but that is falling rapidly year on year.
WTF would I want this? If I am an android user why would I want to install iMessage?
Put it this way, prior to this story I didn't even know it existed....
Fair enough. I think experiences vary then as I haven't found any noticeable differences between countries based on tipping. In the US sometimes I get good service sometimes I don't. Australia, UK & Europe are all non-tipping and there are big variations in service depending on the person. Japan is a country where I consistently get good service, but tipping someone there is insulting them. I honestly can't say I got better service in the US.
Ambulance transfers are free in Australia, I hadn't even thought of that. So how does that work? You picked up off the road and they ask for your credit card?
I guess because you tend to understand the nuances of your own culture if you live there.
Where I live you don't tip unless the service has been absolutely spectacular. As it crazy way above and beyond. I cannot actually remember the last time I tipped.
Holy shit are you kidding?!?! $11k for appendicitis???
I knew the US medical system was a mess but that is crazy! My medical insurance is the top everything and it costs me $146 a fortnight for my family of 4. I was involved in a motorcycle accidents that crushed my collar bone and badly dislocated and broke my wrist. The collar bone was just a plate but the wrist required 4 hours of surgery, 6 screws, a plate, 2 k-wires (otherwise called nails), and 6 months of rehab. I was out of pocket about US$300, and that was because I decided I wanted to go to a private hospital rather than a fully free public hospital because they were running 4 days ahead....
It's also hard for tourists who come from a non-tipping culture. When I go to the US tips are clearly expected, but I have no basis for judging what the should be, or which industries deserve / expect them.
They are also a lot larger. I don't know what the internal chemistry of them is.
I do know though if you puncture them they will burn, especially when they are fully charged.
The real risk comes though when people charge them the wrong way.
I'm honestly not sure. They are always referred to as Lithium Poly. Claimed power density is 0.15-0.17kw/kg. They are 4 cells in parallel and operate at 16v
http://www.hobbyking.com/hobby...
I strap propellers to 1300mah lipos and drain them at rates exceeding 100amps. I will drain said Lipo in approximately 180 seconds. Sometimes less. And when they land they are often exceeding 60c.
Not only that but I will often slam them into hard surfaces, trees, rocks, or pieces of plastic that are rotating at 30,000 rpm +. Despite this I have yet to have a single one spontaneously go up in flames. I have seen the after effects of over charging lipos when people decided to charge them to too high a voltage or charge them too fast. But if you treat them inside their design specs they are very unlikely to ever cause you a problem.
I believe Niantic have about 30 employees. Those employees will predominately be developers of their various games and skilled in that type of work. What they are probably not very good at is detailed data analytics.
So what do you do if you're a business and you need a skillset and toolset that you don't have and you need? You hire another business that provides the skillset and toolset that you need. Just like hiring a plumber.
So I don't read this as them giving the data away at all. I read this as "we need to know something but don't know how to get that from our data, so lets get XYZ company in to help"