Oh i know these tough phones exist (sony, nokia, motorola are all going for it), but the sales numbers show that more people are interested in apple or samsung thin (maybe because thats what best). Personly i would already have a tough phone but i'm a terrible technology procrastinator; I know all the stuff that's just about to come out so i hold out for that, but then there is even more new stuff just about to comeout. I understand the minimalist approch (my dream phone is a thin flexible about 2X6 inch screen i can wrap around my wrist), but honestly i can hardly tell the difference in a couple of mm or 20 grams especialy when it's in my pocket.
oh oh oh, if you want the next must have sensor innovation, put a brain wave sensor in there. That way it can graph all the different stages of sleep (3Xnrem stages, 1X rem), then it can wake you up at the opportune moment (if you get woken up half way through a stage especially rem you can feel tired all day; some times less sleep is better).
I'm with you mate, mainly because i want less in my pockets (already got enough in my pants:)). A little 2 by 6 inch flexible screen i strap around my wrist, but can easily be taken off and able to to read my email, SMSs, check maps (preferably with offline access), and some quick internet browsing. I don't need the sensors that tells me when to go to the toilet or anything, but one that measures the different stages of sleep would be handy.
A few years ago a similar story was posted and i said wearable electronics (both glasses and watches) nice to see i was right. As my previous comment is only just coming to pass now, I'll add to it with tactile touchscreens (tactus is working on this by injecting fluid into bubbles just above the touchscreen http://www.asme.org/kb/news---articles/articles/fluids-engineering/fluid-systems-take-on-touchscreens), and also flexible screens (samsung, nokia, sharp, lg all are working on this) for phones that can be wrapped around your wrist and thrown like you stole it. We will also see mobile devices taking on the pc in some areas with a bunch of docks and dummy devices. One more thing, and i might get some grief over this, is if intel can get there act together, x86 mobile would have a lot of advantages.
Interesting though, that the rugged and tough phones now, have better dimensions and weights than the phones people were more than happy with 2 years ago. I think this is a bit of apple/samsung influencing consumer thinking; they say that phones should weigh nothing and be paper thin; they are a big businesses making lost of money so they must be right. Personally i don't care about a couple of mm or a few grams, give me a phone that can be run over by a car (not that i do that very often, but it's good test of strength).
But you go and give them a phone that can be run over by a car, and all you hear about is how it's an extra 1.5 mm thicker and an extra 20 grams heavier than the iphone.
Windows rt is on arm so it hasn't got the battery drain of Intel, but doesn't run legacy apps. The surface pro has an intel chip, but that is full windows 8 and can run what ever you throw at it (if only they weren't a bitch with secure boot you could run whatever OS as well). Why do you want another cheap fragile tablet, do you have a collection of these things or something? No one at all would of bought an ios or android clone, let them have this niche.
The windows rt machines are about the same cost as an ipad; infact you can get a thinkpad tablet 2 (little 10.something inch tablet, x86, windows 8 pro, with a wacom stylus) for $600 that's pretty much ipad price.
Android adoption (especially tablet) was pretty slow at the beginning, lots of stores were trying to get rid of all kinds of models from acer to viewsonic. I'm not really defending windows rt (I'm not buying one) they need a lot more apps to replace the lack of x86.
So they should just do what apple is doing, or just roll over a die right. Fuck that man, i'm sick of companies chasing the masses, a lot of them are idiots. Should we all drive a Toyota Camry clone just because it's the most popular? Now we got dickheads like the AC telling someone how to make a product they would never buy in a 1000 years (well they probably would if all their friends did), this is why windows 8 is how it is at the moment they are trying to appease these people. I don't really even care for tablets (laptop is very little extra work), but here is a pretty kick ass model (granted i have some issues with win 8, mainly the secure boot) that to me makes the ipad looks like a kids toy and we get useless advice like above.
OH NO, the guys at leap motion know can figure out what hand size the owner has. Don't worry that google reads all your emails and tracks web page vists, your phone with GPS and camera is taken with you everywhere, and facebook knows more about you than your mother.
Well then, you should get a leap motion because it doesn't use any cameras, and the data it generate from use would be almost useless (like trying to use a person's typing speed against them).
The kinect is attacking the problem from a slightly different direction, which does mean less accuracy in the beginning but it'll pay off in the end. What the story fails to mention (on this 6 month old story) is the leap only works in a 2 foot cube above the device, and the tech used means it's quite difficult to expand that bubble (although you can link multiple leaps together it still needs to be beanth you and it only works 2 foot high). What the kinect did was develop a system to compute the whole room then they will work on increasing accuracy with v2 and beyond (potentially meaning a much more versatile product).
Obviously that's not the only way you can use hacking (or any attack). Maybe elections results could be altered, a series of blackouts or malfunctioning factories if you don't do what we want could be started, and no doubt countless more example, control of a countries internet gives you a lot of power over the people. So Is America in Afghanistan right now trying to steal the terrorist's technology?
Hahahaha. i can see him trying to defend himself "But I am a pedagogue, just like all the other teachers". I called a kid a homosapien once in primary school and he took great offense.
Funny thing is, one of the jokes they made about forking a repo wasn't even sexual (they were using it as a compliment like if it's good i'll fork it, if it's amazing i'll implement it) they shouldn't be blamed for her filthy mind.
Problem with that is it means all the big countries can hack all the little countries as much as they want, because they know the little countries don't have the resources to attack or counter hack, plus the rest of the world wont care much (if they ever find out about it) because not many if any people will die directly.
Yeah that's what i thought was weird about this scheme, and the value of completing particular uni courses (apparently a MBA is the way to gauge an entrepreneur success). One of the co-founders of this upstart place didn't finish his course either. Unless they are minimizing risk, by only going after the people that will almost certainly be, slightly successful.
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Oh i know these tough phones exist (sony, nokia, motorola are all going for it), but the sales numbers show that more people are interested in apple or samsung thin (maybe because thats what best). Personly i would already have a tough phone but i'm a terrible technology procrastinator; I know all the stuff that's just about to come out so i hold out for that, but then there is even more new stuff just about to comeout. I understand the minimalist approch (my dream phone is a thin flexible about 2X6 inch screen i can wrap around my wrist), but honestly i can hardly tell the difference in a couple of mm or 20 grams especialy when it's in my pocket.
hahahahah. and even those with digital watches were sad.
oh oh oh, if you want the next must have sensor innovation, put a brain wave sensor in there. That way it can graph all the different stages of sleep (3Xnrem stages, 1X rem), then it can wake you up at the opportune moment (if you get woken up half way through a stage especially rem you can feel tired all day; some times less sleep is better).
I'm with you mate, mainly because i want less in my pockets (already got enough in my pants :)). A little 2 by 6 inch flexible screen i strap around my wrist, but can easily be taken off and able to to read my email, SMSs, check maps (preferably with offline access), and some quick internet browsing. I don't need the sensors that tells me when to go to the toilet or anything, but one that measures the different stages of sleep would be handy.
A few years ago a similar story was posted and i said wearable electronics (both glasses and watches) nice to see i was right. As my previous comment is only just coming to pass now, I'll add to it with tactile touchscreens (tactus is working on this by injecting fluid into bubbles just above the touchscreen http://www.asme.org/kb/news---articles/articles/fluids-engineering/fluid-systems-take-on-touchscreens), and also flexible screens (samsung, nokia, sharp, lg all are working on this) for phones that can be wrapped around your wrist and thrown like you stole it. We will also see mobile devices taking on the pc in some areas with a bunch of docks and dummy devices. One more thing, and i might get some grief over this, is if intel can get there act together, x86 mobile would have a lot of advantages.
Interesting though, that the rugged and tough phones now, have better dimensions and weights than the phones people were more than happy with 2 years ago. I think this is a bit of apple/samsung influencing consumer thinking; they say that phones should weigh nothing and be paper thin; they are a big businesses making lost of money so they must be right. Personally i don't care about a couple of mm or a few grams, give me a phone that can be run over by a car (not that i do that very often, but it's good test of strength).
But you go and give them a phone that can be run over by a car, and all you hear about is how it's an extra 1.5 mm thicker and an extra 20 grams heavier than the iphone.
Windows rt is on arm so it hasn't got the battery drain of Intel, but doesn't run legacy apps. The surface pro has an intel chip, but that is full windows 8 and can run what ever you throw at it (if only they weren't a bitch with secure boot you could run whatever OS as well). Why do you want another cheap fragile tablet, do you have a collection of these things or something? No one at all would of bought an ios or android clone, let them have this niche.
The windows rt machines are about the same cost as an ipad; infact you can get a thinkpad tablet 2 (little 10.something inch tablet, x86, windows 8 pro, with a wacom stylus) for $600 that's pretty much ipad price.
Android adoption (especially tablet) was pretty slow at the beginning, lots of stores were trying to get rid of all kinds of models from acer to viewsonic. I'm not really defending windows rt (I'm not buying one) they need a lot more apps to replace the lack of x86.
So they should just do what apple is doing, or just roll over a die right. Fuck that man, i'm sick of companies chasing the masses, a lot of them are idiots. Should we all drive a Toyota Camry clone just because it's the most popular? Now we got dickheads like the AC telling someone how to make a product they would never buy in a 1000 years (well they probably would if all their friends did), this is why windows 8 is how it is at the moment they are trying to appease these people. I don't really even care for tablets (laptop is very little extra work), but here is a pretty kick ass model (granted i have some issues with win 8, mainly the secure boot) that to me makes the ipad looks like a kids toy and we get useless advice like above.
Please fuck off and die. Some of us don't want that locked down, overly simplified, zero legacy compatibility, minimalist piece of shit.
Weren't android tablets dropping prices like this a year (and a half maybe) ago. I guess it's a dead platform.
OH NO, the guys at leap motion know can figure out what hand size the owner has. Don't worry that google reads all your emails and tracks web page vists, your phone with GPS and camera is taken with you everywhere, and facebook knows more about you than your mother.
Well then, you should get a leap motion because it doesn't use any cameras, and the data it generate from use would be almost useless (like trying to use a person's typing speed against them).
yeah but the leap only works in a 2 foot cube above the device, the duo should be able to do whole rooms without breaking a sweat.
The kinect is attacking the problem from a slightly different direction, which does mean less accuracy in the beginning but it'll pay off in the end. What the story fails to mention (on this 6 month old story) is the leap only works in a 2 foot cube above the device, and the tech used means it's quite difficult to expand that bubble (although you can link multiple leaps together it still needs to be beanth you and it only works 2 foot high). What the kinect did was develop a system to compute the whole room then they will work on increasing accuracy with v2 and beyond (potentially meaning a much more versatile product).
it's a 2 foot cube of work space so it's just set to draw once you pass a certain distance in the z direction.
Come to /. home of the really fresh and current tech news (that may have been around for over 6 months).
I don't know what kind of tone it was said in, it's not like i was there.
Obviously that's not the only way you can use hacking (or any attack). Maybe elections results could be altered, a series of blackouts or malfunctioning factories if you don't do what we want could be started, and no doubt countless more example, control of a countries internet gives you a lot of power over the people. So Is America in Afghanistan right now trying to steal the terrorist's technology?
Hahahaha. i can see him trying to defend himself "But I am a pedagogue, just like all the other teachers". I called a kid a homosapien once in primary school and he took great offense.
Funny thing is, one of the jokes they made about forking a repo wasn't even sexual (they were using it as a compliment like if it's good i'll fork it, if it's amazing i'll implement it) they shouldn't be blamed for her filthy mind.
Problem with that is it means all the big countries can hack all the little countries as much as they want, because they know the little countries don't have the resources to attack or counter hack, plus the rest of the world wont care much (if they ever find out about it) because not many if any people will die directly.
How about when they started reading my emails. Or is that what you mean by open web, they want all of our info open on the web.
Yeah that's what i thought was weird about this scheme, and the value of completing particular uni courses (apparently a MBA is the way to gauge an entrepreneur success). One of the co-founders of this upstart place didn't finish his course either. Unless they are minimizing risk, by only going after the people that will almost certainly be, slightly successful.