There was a series from New Zealand called This is Not My Life and they had an interesting idea of a phone (though it probably showed up elsewhere too). Take a canister that you could wrap your hand around and make it slightly longer. From there the screen is pulled out. It's about the size of a man's hand. When you done with it then you just push it back into the canister part. It's been a while since I've watch the series so I forget all of the detail of what it could do. Basically an advanced smart phone that also lets you control your home environment.
It's also a pretty good show. They were supposed to make a second season but some company from the US bought the rights to the show and an American version was supposed to be made.
It would be interesting to test what BREIN is doing. Are they just looking at link names or are they actually running the files through a checker. I wonder what would happen if someone put up a list of links that weren't valid but had valid song names, with the artist name in it too, in a made up piracy group. Have the host of the links be 127.0.0.1. If it does get deleted then see what Facebook says and go public.
Apple thinks we need a thinner laptop than we need 32GB of RAM.
Fuck off with the thinner phones and laptops. Nobody is asking for those things to be thinner anymore. If you can make them thinner then don't and put extra battery in the device.
And stop differentiating product sizes by more than the screen size (mostly talking about the iPhone here). If someone wants a 4" iPhone then they shouldn't have to sacrifice features found on the larger phones. Don't put the best camera only on the largest phone. If the phone has to be slightly thicker for a larger battery we'll be okay with that.
Why are they going to change when your company bought their software and made changes on your side to accommodate them? If you want them the change then a whole lot of people are going to have to stop buying their software.
It'll be annoying for me if they do get rid of the port. In the morning when I get up I connect my phone to my Mac so that it can charge and sync at the same time. But since they offer the capability to sync wirelessly Apple won't have a problem getting rid of the port. They like making things more complicated to use lately.
This is already happening today. Australia is a leader in this technology. Some of the mines there have their trucks that carry the ore autonomous with the operators at a major city instead of at the mine site. In Canada some of the companies mining the tar sands are looking at this or implementing this.
Yes their pay is going down. To $0. In these systems one person oversees multiple vehicles so they can get rid of many people. And of course that's not saying the drivers are able to transfer over to operating the remote controlled vehicles so it's possible that all of the drivers are let go and new people are brought in.
I think that the mission is great. I didn't compare the mission to anything. I only compared the last bit of data coming back to a dot of a picture from the first moon mission. The first bit of this mission was much more important than this one.
We got a bit back. It's not historic. It wasn't the first, it was the last. It wasn't from the farthest away. It hasn't been analyzed, just received. There's nothing historic about the bit. Going with your comparisons it's like a dot on the last picture Armstrong & company took of the moon on the way back home.
Or using attachments. It was around 2005 and there was a nasty worm going happening but it needed to be transmitted to a new network (one behind a firewall for example) to get started. Early one morning a higher up manager comes into my work area where there was two of us working. He starts off with some general chit-chat. Eventually he says, "Uh guys, I got a message with an attachment with the name [name of worm]. Should I have opened it?"
My coworker quickly volunteered to help the manager out while I got on with my work (and trying not to laugh out loud since the managers desk was nearby).
It was a no brainer since a large share of their user base was wanting a phone with a larger screen. They ended up with a pretty decent implementation to handle the different screen sizes and resolutions from a developers perspective.
There's two things that I hated about their implementation though. The first is that they are installing better features in the bigger phones. I think that they should have all the sizes equivalent in feature sets and the only difference be the display size (and possibly battery life due to the amount of battery in each size). The second, and biggest problem, I had was that they got rid of the 4" phone only to bring one back later on with even a smaller feature set. People buy a smaller phone, tablet, or laptop because that's the size that works for them. They don't want a device crippled by having features missing. (Yes, I do realize that sometimes that people but the smaller device because they can't afford the larger one.)
I can't remember why Jobs didn't like the larger phone so you could be right in that statement. But we would be seeing Apple in the state it is in now if Jobs was still around. There would be updates to the desktops. Apple apps would not be the piles of crap that they are (compare Music now to the one in iOS 7).
I wish they would fix links when someone changes the location of content within wikipedia. What happens is that someone believes they have found a better spot for some content and move it there (for example, maybe there's more information about something and it becomes a page of it's own instead of a paragraph on some other page). However the person that moves it doesn't look for everything that links to where the original content was and updates the links.
I was doing some research on colours for a developer tool earlier this year and came across problem a number of times. It's extremely frustrating, especially when you contact the person to ask about the move (it wasn't as simple as my example above) and they rip your head off for asking.
They have finally solved where to put the "Any" key that people new to computers look for.
I wonder how long how long it will take for the first developer to add something to their app that will require the user to press the "Any" key and they will clear the top row and have an "Any" key present.
So you will have had the free use of a car for two to three years because the amount of emissions wasn't what you expected. Did you buy your car specifically for the emissions? Or maybe you chose a diesel because they get better mileage?
So you get a 10% reduction if you are able to platoon them. It won't be always be able to possible to do this. Competing companies (will Walmart lead a Target truck?), trucks not on highways, traffic jams, etc. Put the goods in containers and the containers on trains you get about a 50% reduction in emissions plus all of the other benefits I mentioned.
You can still have the driverless truck for the short haul part of the trip. I'm call for changes to the longer part of the trip. Ships between continents or for very far distances. Trains between far cities. Trucks for the last city or to the smaller city or town. Use the most efficient transport when possible.
Self driving trucks aren't the right answer for long distance shipping. Sure, it becomes cheaper and safer in the longer term to have trucks drive themselves. But it won't reduce the overall traffic levels, lower the pollution from so many trucks, or reduce the damage to the roads by the vehicles. More trucks will still be needed in the future as more and more goods are transported. It will be lowered because each truck will be on the road more.
We need to go back to railroads for deliveries between large cities. From there then trucks, either with a driver or self driving, can take the goods from the rail yards throughout the city and to the smaller cities nearby. It would mean further reliance on shipping containers but they are a proven technology. Drivers would become local from long haul. This plan would get many large trucks off of the highways which would make them safer, reduce maintenance costs, and drop the need to expand them.
For larger companies such as Walmart instead of loading a truck at their warehouse to go to a specific store or two they would load a container. The container would be taken to the closest rail yard. The rail company would have trains going to nearby cities leaving at regular times instead of waiting for the train to reach a certain size. The container would reach the destination city at a certain time and the company would have a local driver there pick it up and drive it to the proper store(s). This would be instead of having one driver go directly from the warehouse to the store.
I thought about this one night when I was going from Toronto to Ottawa on the train and most of the traffic on the highway was large trucks. They were all going to the same places (Kingston, Ottawa, Montreal, etc). If most of that cargo could be shipped by train it would be better for the environment, the highways would be safer, taxpayers would save money on the highways, and companies could save even more on delivery costs.
Twitter also has a habit of changing how it works every couple of years to try and make it easier on new users instead of keeping the system the same and making better tutorials. Every time they change the system behaviour the core base that has kept Twitter around gets further alienated and part of them leaves. They created the community and were the reason Twitter was successful in the first place.
Every change makes it seem like Twitter wants to become more like Facebook. For example, they changed the stars to hearts. People, at least that core, are on Twitter because it wasn't Facebook.
Twitter needs it's own identity again, different from other companies. They need to make a roadmap on how they are going to get there and make it public. Finally it needs to spell out what's acceptable use and apply it equally.
Did they actually improve the functionality of the app though? So many things you had to go to another screen to do just so that they could show a larger image of the album cover.
Or go into your preferences and under the fonts section there should be a checkbox that lets you say that you don't want to use fonts specified by the website and only use the ones you choose there. There are also options to specify the minimum font size.
It's not the absolute numbers that are the problem. It's the speed that we are reaching them. If we were adding CO2 to the atmosphere at a much slower rate (say 100 times slower) then civilization and nature would have a much easier time to adapt to the changes.
Using a car analogy how fast do you want to stop from going 60 mph? Over a 1/4 mile or by using a brick wall. We're currently using the brick wall method when it comes to climate change.
Up until now everyone in the NFL and media has been referring to them as iPads. Microsoft has finally figured out how to get people to refer to their hardware by name.
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There was a series from New Zealand called This is Not My Life and they had an interesting idea of a phone (though it probably showed up elsewhere too). Take a canister that you could wrap your hand around and make it slightly longer. From there the screen is pulled out. It's about the size of a man's hand. When you done with it then you just push it back into the canister part. It's been a while since I've watch the series so I forget all of the detail of what it could do. Basically an advanced smart phone that also lets you control your home environment.
It's also a pretty good show. They were supposed to make a second season but some company from the US bought the rights to the show and an American version was supposed to be made.
Slide out keyboards require extra thickness so they won't go for that. Besides the virtual keyboard already slides up from the bottom of the screen.
It would be interesting to test what BREIN is doing. Are they just looking at link names or are they actually running the files through a checker. I wonder what would happen if someone put up a list of links that weren't valid but had valid song names, with the artist name in it too, in a made up piracy group. Have the host of the links be 127.0.0.1. If it does get deleted then see what Facebook says and go public.
Apple thinks we need a thinner laptop than we need 32GB of RAM.
Fuck off with the thinner phones and laptops. Nobody is asking for those things to be thinner anymore. If you can make them thinner then don't and put extra battery in the device.
And stop differentiating product sizes by more than the screen size (mostly talking about the iPhone here). If someone wants a 4" iPhone then they shouldn't have to sacrifice features found on the larger phones. Don't put the best camera only on the largest phone. If the phone has to be slightly thicker for a larger battery we'll be okay with that.
Why are they going to change when your company bought their software and made changes on your side to accommodate them? If you want them the change then a whole lot of people are going to have to stop buying their software.
It'll be annoying for me if they do get rid of the port. In the morning when I get up I connect my phone to my Mac so that it can charge and sync at the same time. But since they offer the capability to sync wirelessly Apple won't have a problem getting rid of the port. They like making things more complicated to use lately.
What are you, a socialist?
This is already happening today. Australia is a leader in this technology. Some of the mines there have their trucks that carry the ore autonomous with the operators at a major city instead of at the mine site. In Canada some of the companies mining the tar sands are looking at this or implementing this.
Yes their pay is going down. To $0. In these systems one person oversees multiple vehicles so they can get rid of many people. And of course that's not saying the drivers are able to transfer over to operating the remote controlled vehicles so it's possible that all of the drivers are let go and new people are brought in.
I think that the mission is great. I didn't compare the mission to anything. I only compared the last bit of data coming back to a dot of a picture from the first moon mission. The first bit of this mission was much more important than this one.
We got a bit back. It's not historic. It wasn't the first, it was the last. It wasn't from the farthest away. It hasn't been analyzed, just received. There's nothing historic about the bit. Going with your comparisons it's like a dot on the last picture Armstrong & company took of the moon on the way back home.
Or using attachments. It was around 2005 and there was a nasty worm going happening but it needed to be transmitted to a new network (one behind a firewall for example) to get started. Early one morning a higher up manager comes into my work area where there was two of us working. He starts off with some general chit-chat. Eventually he says, "Uh guys, I got a message with an attachment with the name [name of worm]. Should I have opened it?"
My coworker quickly volunteered to help the manager out while I got on with my work (and trying not to laugh out loud since the managers desk was nearby).
It was a no brainer since a large share of their user base was wanting a phone with a larger screen. They ended up with a pretty decent implementation to handle the different screen sizes and resolutions from a developers perspective.
There's two things that I hated about their implementation though. The first is that they are installing better features in the bigger phones. I think that they should have all the sizes equivalent in feature sets and the only difference be the display size (and possibly battery life due to the amount of battery in each size). The second, and biggest problem, I had was that they got rid of the 4" phone only to bring one back later on with even a smaller feature set. People buy a smaller phone, tablet, or laptop because that's the size that works for them. They don't want a device crippled by having features missing. (Yes, I do realize that sometimes that people but the smaller device because they can't afford the larger one.)
I can't remember why Jobs didn't like the larger phone so you could be right in that statement. But we would be seeing Apple in the state it is in now if Jobs was still around. There would be updates to the desktops. Apple apps would not be the piles of crap that they are (compare Music now to the one in iOS 7).
I wish they would fix links when someone changes the location of content within wikipedia. What happens is that someone believes they have found a better spot for some content and move it there (for example, maybe there's more information about something and it becomes a page of it's own instead of a paragraph on some other page). However the person that moves it doesn't look for everything that links to where the original content was and updates the links.
I was doing some research on colours for a developer tool earlier this year and came across problem a number of times. It's extremely frustrating, especially when you contact the person to ask about the move (it wasn't as simple as my example above) and they rip your head off for asking.
They have finally solved where to put the "Any" key that people new to computers look for.
I wonder how long how long it will take for the first developer to add something to their app that will require the user to press the "Any" key and they will clear the top row and have an "Any" key present.
That's for when you use Boot Camp.
So you will have had the free use of a car for two to three years because the amount of emissions wasn't what you expected. Did you buy your car specifically for the emissions? Or maybe you chose a diesel because they get better mileage?
So you get a 10% reduction if you are able to platoon them. It won't be always be able to possible to do this. Competing companies (will Walmart lead a Target truck?), trucks not on highways, traffic jams, etc. Put the goods in containers and the containers on trains you get about a 50% reduction in emissions plus all of the other benefits I mentioned.
You can still have the driverless truck for the short haul part of the trip. I'm call for changes to the longer part of the trip. Ships between continents or for very far distances. Trains between far cities. Trucks for the last city or to the smaller city or town. Use the most efficient transport when possible.
Self driving trucks aren't the right answer for long distance shipping. Sure, it becomes cheaper and safer in the longer term to have trucks drive themselves. But it won't reduce the overall traffic levels, lower the pollution from so many trucks, or reduce the damage to the roads by the vehicles. More trucks will still be needed in the future as more and more goods are transported. It will be lowered because each truck will be on the road more.
We need to go back to railroads for deliveries between large cities. From there then trucks, either with a driver or self driving, can take the goods from the rail yards throughout the city and to the smaller cities nearby. It would mean further reliance on shipping containers but they are a proven technology. Drivers would become local from long haul. This plan would get many large trucks off of the highways which would make them safer, reduce maintenance costs, and drop the need to expand them.
For larger companies such as Walmart instead of loading a truck at their warehouse to go to a specific store or two they would load a container. The container would be taken to the closest rail yard. The rail company would have trains going to nearby cities leaving at regular times instead of waiting for the train to reach a certain size. The container would reach the destination city at a certain time and the company would have a local driver there pick it up and drive it to the proper store(s). This would be instead of having one driver go directly from the warehouse to the store.
I thought about this one night when I was going from Toronto to Ottawa on the train and most of the traffic on the highway was large trucks. They were all going to the same places (Kingston, Ottawa, Montreal, etc). If most of that cargo could be shipped by train it would be better for the environment, the highways would be safer, taxpayers would save money on the highways, and companies could save even more on delivery costs.
Twitter also has a habit of changing how it works every couple of years to try and make it easier on new users instead of keeping the system the same and making better tutorials. Every time they change the system behaviour the core base that has kept Twitter around gets further alienated and part of them leaves. They created the community and were the reason Twitter was successful in the first place.
Every change makes it seem like Twitter wants to become more like Facebook. For example, they changed the stars to hearts. People, at least that core, are on Twitter because it wasn't Facebook.
Twitter needs it's own identity again, different from other companies. They need to make a roadmap on how they are going to get there and make it public. Finally it needs to spell out what's acceptable use and apply it equally.
Did they actually improve the functionality of the app though? So many things you had to go to another screen to do just so that they could show a larger image of the album cover.
Or go into your preferences and under the fonts section there should be a checkbox that lets you say that you don't want to use fonts specified by the website and only use the ones you choose there. There are also options to specify the minimum font size.
It's not the absolute numbers that are the problem. It's the speed that we are reaching them. If we were adding CO2 to the atmosphere at a much slower rate (say 100 times slower) then civilization and nature would have a much easier time to adapt to the changes.
Using a car analogy how fast do you want to stop from going 60 mph? Over a 1/4 mile or by using a brick wall. We're currently using the brick wall method when it comes to climate change.
Go see your doctor about a sense of humour transplant as yours doesn't seem to be working.
Up until now everyone in the NFL and media has been referring to them as iPads. Microsoft has finally figured out how to get people to refer to their hardware by name.