Emoticons should just stay as simple text! I'm constantly annoyed by programs that turn my:> into a smiley face. It's not a smiley - it's a beak.:> General/happy.:>- Silly./:> confused.
They made billions because their protocol and software worked, almost every time, even for near-zero-skill users who wouldn't know what a port number is. Install software, get chatting. There are open protocols, but things like SIP take a bit of setting up.
I've only resorted to nuke once, to deal with a troll who came to bother us when there were no admins around. The obnoxious type of troll, who just posts lines full of profanity and childish insults.
Andrea Hernandez is the student who refused to wear the badge because she believed it was the 'mark of the beast' and offended her religion. This case wasn't just about privacy. It was also about the boundry when a person's religion conflicts with secular regulations.
The android command line is accessible via a terminal emulator app. But you have to root the phone to get access to su/sudo, obviously. It's a little awkward as few of the familiar binaries are available, but you get cd/ls/cp/rm, which is enough for a little poking around the filesystem and copying files you want to SD card.
Raven isn't a name, it's a species identifier. It's a furry thing. Whenever a two-part name is required, it's common in furry to use species as surname.
Both of those have a 'real names only' policy. The reason you can open an account with little personal identification is purely down to the practical difficulties of enforcing that policy.
This being a government project, those running it are going to be looking for ID sources that are backed up a company with serious resources, that can be depended upon to remain in business for the next decade at least, and idealy that has some existing history of cooperation with the US government. OpenID meets all these criteria, but Facebook and Google accounts meet them even more strongly. We might joke about 'paying your taxes on facebook' right now, but it is entirely plausible in a few years that may well be a common thing to do.
The important part is the ability to form long, complex chains. Only two elements can do that: Carbon and silicon. Carbon is better at it. Silicon may be good enough.
Just ahead of you. What is visibility really like on headlamps? It's actually terrible on near-horizontal things like road markings, ice, potholes, mud, curbs, etc - the angle of illumination and of viewing is just too shallow.
I can see some limited use for point one in disaster situations - if the hurricane/earthquake has knocked out power, it'd be very useful for the road lights to stay lit for a couple of days so people can still travel safely while repairs are made. I don't see any advantage in glow-in-the-dark over the current retroreflector tech, and inductive charging on roads anywhere beside parking bays is just silly.
I'm in a metric country. There are a few things which remain measured in imperial for historic reasons - road signs, milk and beer. Our milk comes in containers of 1/2, 1, 2, 4 and 6 pint. Milk is an exception, though: Almost any other liquid foodstuff comes in bottles with a nice round multiple of 100ml.
Google and Microsoft fighting over phone map apps. Apple and Google fighting over the same. The HTML5 video codec patent conflict between Apple-and-Microsoft and everyone else. Maybe the real problem is that we have these tech giants, and they try to do everything in every area vaguely electronic. They aren't trying to just make and sell(/license) the best products any more: They have each created their own self-contained ecosystem, and are doing all they can to make sure that their ecosystem thrives while not in any way encouraging those of their competitors.
Maybe this wouldn't happen if we actually had an operating system company, and a phone company, and a maps company, and a web browser company, and a video technology company, and a company store, and so on. Sure, it would mean more of a headache to get all this tech to play nice together - but we wouldn't end up in these ridiculous situations where your phone refuses to talk to your favorite mapping service because that service is run by a competitors of the company that programmed the phone.
It's useless in cities, yes. The only niche I can imagine this being used in would be delivery to very remote, rural locations where the infrastructure is poor, and even then it's only good for small items. A small niche.
I'm sure teenagers will have a great time downing these things. Stone plus string makes a rotor-tangler. Just use atlatl or traditional cartoon dennis-the-menace slingshot. With luck, you get someone's delivery. At the very least you get a mangled drone to strip for ebayables.
Not really that different from things already commonplace in networkable games. I recall that when I bought Guild Wars, it had a little card in the box with a one-shot key that had to be used to activate it online. The big advance in this patent is just making tying possible without a network connection, and thus extending what has been accepted practice in multiplayer games into singleplayer too. Still a dick move, but not the first time something like this has happened.
We just passed Christmas. A game-sales peak due to gifts. People do not like giving virtual games as gifts - they lack the traditional tappings of a physical gift, the wrapping, the excitement, the 'solidity' of an item. Sony may well want to preserve physical media in parallel with virtual for just this reason.
For some people, speed is everything. They want the film, they want it right now. Sometimes the movie isn't available by other means, either because of a regional release schedule or the cost or inconvenience of a cinema visit.
Blu-ray players don't have the hardware to decode it though, and HDMI doesn't support it either. The screen does, but that's all. You *might* be able to get away with a firmware flash, but for most people it'll mean buying new hardware. Again.
The standard pirate sizes ate 700MB for a recompressed DVD-rip and 4.4GB for a recompressed blu-ray rip. These sizes are used because they are just small enough to fit onto a CD-R and DVD-R respectively. It's not universal though. Especially long or difficult films might go up to 8GB in HD, and there has been a recent trend towards smaller files where quality wouldn't be compromised rather than just assuming media-size for everything.
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Emoticons should just stay as simple text! I'm constantly annoyed by programs that turn my :> into a smiley face. It's not a smiley - it's a beak. :> General/happy. :>- Silly. /:> confused.
They made billions because their protocol and software worked, almost every time, even for near-zero-skill users who wouldn't know what a port number is. Install software, get chatting. There are open protocols, but things like SIP take a bit of setting up.
I've only resorted to nuke once, to deal with a troll who came to bother us when there were no admins around. The obnoxious type of troll, who just posts lines full of profanity and childish insults.
Andrea Hernandez is the student who refused to wear the badge because she believed it was the 'mark of the beast' and offended her religion. This case wasn't just about privacy. It was also about the boundry when a person's religion conflicts with secular regulations.
The android command line is accessible via a terminal emulator app. But you have to root the phone to get access to su/sudo, obviously. It's a little awkward as few of the familiar binaries are available, but you get cd/ls/cp/rm, which is enough for a little poking around the filesystem and copying files you want to SD card.
Suricou. Anagram.
Raven isn't a name, it's a species identifier. It's a furry thing. Whenever a two-part name is required, it's common in furry to use species as surname.
A little googling finds lots, lots more dirt on the AAPS. It's basically a conservative pressure group pretending to be a medical organisation.
Both of those have a 'real names only' policy. The reason you can open an account with little personal identification is purely down to the practical difficulties of enforcing that policy.
This being a government project, those running it are going to be looking for ID sources that are backed up a company with serious resources, that can be depended upon to remain in business for the next decade at least, and idealy that has some existing history of cooperation with the US government. OpenID meets all these criteria, but Facebook and Google accounts meet them even more strongly. We might joke about 'paying your taxes on facebook' right now, but it is entirely plausible in a few years that may well be a common thing to do.
The important part is the ability to form long, complex chains. Only two elements can do that: Carbon and silicon. Carbon is better at it. Silicon may be good enough.
I'd suggest you patent it quickly, but I imagine someone already has. Probably a lot of someones.
Blinks happen all the time unconsciously, in complex and varied patterns. That makes them unsuitable for input.
Winking, though... that could work.
Just ahead of you. What is visibility really like on headlamps? It's actually terrible on near-horizontal things like road markings, ice, potholes, mud, curbs, etc - the angle of illumination and of viewing is just too shallow.
USB3 cables have a differently shaped connector from USB1-2.
I can see some limited use for point one in disaster situations - if the hurricane/earthquake has knocked out power, it'd be very useful for the road lights to stay lit for a couple of days so people can still travel safely while repairs are made. I don't see any advantage in glow-in-the-dark over the current retroreflector tech, and inductive charging on roads anywhere beside parking bays is just silly.
I'm in a metric country. There are a few things which remain measured in imperial for historic reasons - road signs, milk and beer. Our milk comes in containers of 1/2, 1, 2, 4 and 6 pint. Milk is an exception, though: Almost any other liquid foodstuff comes in bottles with a nice round multiple of 100ml.
Google and Microsoft fighting over phone map apps. Apple and Google fighting over the same. The HTML5 video codec patent conflict between Apple-and-Microsoft and everyone else. Maybe the real problem is that we have these tech giants, and they try to do everything in every area vaguely electronic. They aren't trying to just make and sell(/license) the best products any more: They have each created their own self-contained ecosystem, and are doing all they can to make sure that their ecosystem thrives while not in any way encouraging those of their competitors.
Maybe this wouldn't happen if we actually had an operating system company, and a phone company, and a maps company, and a web browser company, and a video technology company, and a company store, and so on. Sure, it would mean more of a headache to get all this tech to play nice together - but we wouldn't end up in these ridiculous situations where your phone refuses to talk to your favorite mapping service because that service is run by a competitors of the company that programmed the phone.
It's useless in cities, yes. The only niche I can imagine this being used in would be delivery to very remote, rural locations where the infrastructure is poor, and even then it's only good for small items. A small niche.
I'm sure teenagers will have a great time downing these things. Stone plus string makes a rotor-tangler. Just use atlatl or traditional cartoon dennis-the-menace slingshot. With luck, you get someone's delivery. At the very least you get a mangled drone to strip for ebayables.
Not really that different from things already commonplace in networkable games. I recall that when I bought Guild Wars, it had a little card in the box with a one-shot key that had to be used to activate it online. The big advance in this patent is just making tying possible without a network connection, and thus extending what has been accepted practice in multiplayer games into singleplayer too. Still a dick move, but not the first time something like this has happened.
We just passed Christmas. A game-sales peak due to gifts. People do not like giving virtual games as gifts - they lack the traditional tappings of a physical gift, the wrapping, the excitement, the 'solidity' of an item. Sony may well want to preserve physical media in parallel with virtual for just this reason.
In that narrow spectrum? Shannon says no.
For some people, speed is everything. They want the film, they want it right now. Sometimes the movie isn't available by other means, either because of a regional release schedule or the cost or inconvenience of a cinema visit.
Blu-ray players don't have the hardware to decode it though, and HDMI doesn't support it either. The screen does, but that's all. You *might* be able to get away with a firmware flash, but for most people it'll mean buying new hardware. Again.
The standard pirate sizes ate 700MB for a recompressed DVD-rip and 4.4GB for a recompressed blu-ray rip. These sizes are used because they are just small enough to fit onto a CD-R and DVD-R respectively. It's not universal though. Especially long or difficult films might go up to 8GB in HD, and there has been a recent trend towards smaller files where quality wouldn't be compromised rather than just assuming media-size for everything.