I already bought a developers edition with more ram. It's not perfect but I'm not holding my breath on the big guys doing it properly any time soon, plus it's quite a good price for a phone (i won't feel bad turning it into a 3g drone platform if my dream phone comes along in a year).
Both samsung and lg have built flexible displays and you can expect them to start showing up in products next year (I'm pretty sure apple's iwatch will have one, if they are waiting till next year). With a flexible display you can get can get a smallish phone to be be a biggish watch. And before you go telling me everything cant be flexible it doesn't need to be (just enough to wrap it around a wrist), stuff like batteries can be multiple units separated around the band, and you can easily have a rigid spot in the middle for a circuit board.
For the smartwatch to really take off it needs a flexible screen (samsung and lg both have these), that wraps around your wrist or unfurls to smallish smartphone, and most importantly has a data/voice connection of it's own (this way you can leave home on a jog or go to the pub and just take your watch). Problem is the big companies won't want to bring that out, because it could hurt the sales of their other products (safer to sell an accessory than a replacement).
Exactly i have no doubt the nsa can crack any encryption we throw at them (they have been cracking codes for the past 60+ years), but if each individual message had to be cracked the majority of mail would be left alone. Even if they start trying to store everything so they can bulk decrypt (which would be insanely huge after a few years) a few emails shared on a safe network and they would have to go back to one by one.
You're right you wouldn't be able to delete any emails, but you could build in a system to deal with not receiving the latest email (and not getting an undelivered email notification). Something like sending the key for the last email you got, and if that key doesn't work, then send a request for an alternate version of the key using data from the previous emails they both agree have been received.
How about an encryption key that evolves based on previous emails, so that unless the NSA have your entire email history with another person stored and unencrypted, they will have to brute force the key each time.
I don't know, maybe he does, it's hard to tell the propaganda from the news these days. Still if i was an evil dictator with chemical weapons they wouldn't be hooked up to the interwebz, i don't care how good amazons cloud computing is.
Money did all that. It just so happens that governments spend lots more money during war. If you took the trillions of dollars America spends a year on weapons, and put it into science R&D and projects, we would all kinds of magical technology (easily enough for a mars base and robotic asteroid mining).
Ummmm how about we don't give the US the right to screw with peoples bank accounts just because the US has accused them of something. Considering the US track record of getting accusations right and all.
"Last, it is possible the U.S. military has cyber capabilities to directly disrupt the operations of Syria's chemical troops." How are they going to stop assads chemical troops with cyber warfare? Even if he had any (which to be honest dosn't make any sence; he was winning why would he piss off the internation community) i really doubt they would have them hooked up to the internet.
It still doesn’t seem impossible. If i was in that situation i would defiantly still be considering it. I don't know what the costs of this system would end up being, but it still seems feasible, maybe lowering the cost to $5 per month.
$10 a month for 500 people is $60 000 a year, with a 5 year life that's $360 000 from just the locals. I don't know how much these will cost or how much is reusable after 5 years but the whole scheme doesn't seem impossible, especially with a bit of help from the government and tourism industry.
the guys that build this http://www.gizmag.com/solara-uav-atmospheric-satellite/28886/ reckon it could run a cell phone network "Additionally, Titan points out that one of the aircraft could provide cell phone coverage for an area of over 6,500 square miles (16,800 sq km), offering the reach of over 100 ground-based towers.". Sure it's not going to be able to handle a new york level load, but there are plenty of spots in africa where only a couple of hundred people live in an area that big.
I agree i wouldn't want it to be the only option but being able to sleep on a commute to work, or have the car pick me up and take me home from the pub is a pretty damn awesome feature. Problem with the article's survey is, people are idiots, if you asked people back at the start of 2007 if they wanted a smartphone they would also say they don't need one, fast forward a couple of years however.
I think Google made the iphone youtube app themselves, which they wont do for Microsoft because they are too busy and there aren't enough users (which is in part due to lack of main stream apps). But the rest sounds plausible. Microsoft might deserve it, but it seems cruel to me for Google to punish those poor 11 windows phone users.
Are you fucking kidding me, that's in a browser. Come back when you stop dribbling shit. Microsoft is more than willing to display whatever obnoxious and intrusive ads google wants, but google wont tell them. Microsoft may well need some supervision (even though they are hardly the unstoppable monopoly they once were, and if writing their own youtube app is a measure how evil they are.. well yeah) but Google is no way to enforce this, this kind of power its only going to (already has) created an even worse monster. A monster who knows you better than your own mother; at least with Microsoft we knew they were incompetent.
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Well google just paid the guy that did at Stanford, to come do it for them but yeah.
I already bought a developers edition with more ram. It's not perfect but I'm not holding my breath on the big guys doing it properly any time soon, plus it's quite a good price for a phone (i won't feel bad turning it into a 3g drone platform if my dream phone comes along in a year).
"The only way a flexible display could matter is if it unfolds to make a larger display than the watch face" That is what i'm talking about and that is whats going to happen. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OIu1_zoLRgE and http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/21/apple-patent-application-flexible-display-band/. E ink is a good idea as well, and they have flexible color versions even at reasonable refresh rate coming out soon.
Both samsung and lg have built flexible displays and you can expect them to start showing up in products next year (I'm pretty sure apple's iwatch will have one, if they are waiting till next year). With a flexible display you can get can get a smallish phone to be be a biggish watch. And before you go telling me everything cant be flexible it doesn't need to be (just enough to wrap it around a wrist), stuff like batteries can be multiple units separated around the band, and you can easily have a rigid spot in the middle for a circuit board.
For the smartwatch to really take off it needs a flexible screen (samsung and lg both have these), that wraps around your wrist or unfurls to smallish smartphone, and most importantly has a data/voice connection of it's own (this way you can leave home on a jog or go to the pub and just take your watch). Problem is the big companies won't want to bring that out, because it could hurt the sales of their other products (safer to sell an accessory than a replacement).
Exactly i have no doubt the nsa can crack any encryption we throw at them (they have been cracking codes for the past 60+ years), but if each individual message had to be cracked the majority of mail would be left alone. Even if they start trying to store everything so they can bulk decrypt (which would be insanely huge after a few years) a few emails shared on a safe network and they would have to go back to one by one.
You're right you wouldn't be able to delete any emails, but you could build in a system to deal with not receiving the latest email (and not getting an undelivered email notification). Something like sending the key for the last email you got, and if that key doesn't work, then send a request for an alternate version of the key using data from the previous emails they both agree have been received.
Well if you have gmail then doubleclick does have your emails, as they are both part of google.
How about an encryption key that evolves based on previous emails, so that unless the NSA have your entire email history with another person stored and unencrypted, they will have to brute force the key each time.
That's why they need to start another war. Look at my assistant with the big tits, while i slip the Rolex right of your wrist.
I don't know, maybe he does, it's hard to tell the propaganda from the news these days. Still if i was an evil dictator with chemical weapons they wouldn't be hooked up to the interwebz, i don't care how good amazons cloud computing is.
Money did all that. It just so happens that governments spend lots more money during war. If you took the trillions of dollars America spends a year on weapons, and put it into science R&D and projects, we would all kinds of magical technology (easily enough for a mars base and robotic asteroid mining).
oh yeah, fair enough.
Ummmm how about we don't give the US the right to screw with peoples bank accounts just because the US has accused them of something. Considering the US track record of getting accusations right and all.
"Last, it is possible the U.S. military has cyber capabilities to directly disrupt the operations of Syria's chemical troops." How are they going to stop assads chemical troops with cyber warfare? Even if he had any (which to be honest dosn't make any sence; he was winning why would he piss off the internation community) i really doubt they would have them hooked up to the internet.
5.9% is $120 in $2019
It still doesn’t seem impossible. If i was in that situation i would defiantly still be considering it. I don't know what the costs of this system would end up being, but it still seems feasible, maybe lowering the cost to $5 per month.
$300 000*. I'm going to bed.
$10 a month for 500 people is $60 000 a year, with a 5 year life that's $360 000 from just the locals. I don't know how much these will cost or how much is reusable after 5 years but the whole scheme doesn't seem impossible, especially with a bit of help from the government and tourism industry.
the guys that build this http://www.gizmag.com/solara-uav-atmospheric-satellite/28886/ reckon it could run a cell phone network "Additionally, Titan points out that one of the aircraft could provide cell phone coverage for an area of over 6,500 square miles (16,800 sq km), offering the reach of over 100 ground-based towers.". Sure it's not going to be able to handle a new york level load, but there are plenty of spots in africa where only a couple of hundred people live in an area that big.
I agree i wouldn't want it to be the only option but being able to sleep on a commute to work, or have the car pick me up and take me home from the pub is a pretty damn awesome feature. Problem with the article's survey is, people are idiots, if you asked people back at the start of 2007 if they wanted a smartphone they would also say they don't need one, fast forward a couple of years however.
I think Google made the iphone youtube app themselves, which they wont do for Microsoft because they are too busy and there aren't enough users (which is in part due to lack of main stream apps). But the rest sounds plausible. Microsoft might deserve it, but it seems cruel to me for Google to punish those poor 11 windows phone users.
Are you fucking kidding me, that's in a browser. Come back when you stop dribbling shit. Microsoft is more than willing to display whatever obnoxious and intrusive ads google wants, but google wont tell them. Microsoft may well need some supervision (even though they are hardly the unstoppable monopoly they once were, and if writing their own youtube app is a measure how evil they are.. well yeah) but Google is no way to enforce this, this kind of power its only going to (already has) created an even worse monster. A monster who knows you better than your own mother; at least with Microsoft we knew they were incompetent.
It's not like google could handle it either. Neither the android or iphone app uses HTML5.
You have to pay MS for android as well.