To make it less useful for snoops, the spatial and temporal accuracy of the data has been artificially reduced. You can only animate week-by-week even though the data is timed to the second, and if you zoom in you’ll see the points are constrained to a grid, so your exact location is not revealed. The underlying database has no such constraints, unfortunately.
That's like covering your eyes and pretending something doesn't exist. The phone will still make more location data and store it next time you sync. Also replacing data != secure.
Intentional misspelling is intentional. My comment is about as profound as the previous, that governments would just disappear quantum physicists for effectively doing "science". I'm not entirely sure I'd see the point. It would just produce a technological dark-age (relatively to the potential of having mainstream quantum machines/computers eventually). The two posts, you see, are entangled. One is spun into silliness in the form of conspiracy, the other is spun in the opposite direction as a Yo Dawg meme.
Although I figured using it as a network interconnect across the planet, say EU to US would be a good start, of course depending how quick you can flip that bit as to whether it's even feasible vs under sea cables. Though saying that I figure it's far more complex than merely using it as an overcomplicated cable. No doubt thinking of traditional uses for quantum processing systems is too simple, but I'm not a quantum physicist so I'm a bit stuck there. The engineer part of me says "Right, now what? Let's find a use for it and start building another one."
Why would it be mandatory? Mobile Me is opt in (purchase), even time machine is opt-in. Hell, even owning the machine is opt-in. Itunes sharing is opt-in. Where's this mandatory idea come from? Nevar
The OH says it's very useful in noisy environments. It also can be turned into a one handed variant - i.e. drink in other hand, that works quite well for bars.
Unfortunately sign language has a long way to go before it even reaches universality. Gestures defined by companies and product makers will win in that race to evolve. The reason is this, sign language is not even universal in it's own country. There's a misunderstanding by many (including myself originally) that sign language was merely English with hand waving. Really, it's not.
Most of us hearing types think it is, because we just don't know any better. My OH is an interpreter so this comes from a good source. In England we have British Sign Language. This is just one of many forms of sign language used for communication by deaf people but it is not the only way. There's also SSE (sign supported English) which is what alot of deaf educated people use, who have a much better grasp of written english and only relates to BSL as far as BSL is one end of the spectrum and SSE is the other.
The thing is BSL is iconic. A sign represents some arbitrary idea on it's own, until a meaning is attached, with other gestures and the whole set covers a meaning. SSE is closer to typical "english" in it's structure and grammar where signs tend to link more to individual words than concepts. These two are besides the many many other variants, mid points and such on the scale of "sign language used by british people". Something I just didn't know until my OH told me.
If there's a deaf person on here they may be able to build upon what I've just said, as I really only have a grasp of how the languages work myself, not a real understanding - I'm not deaf nor do I know sign language as a language.
Basically my point is (I think), sign language is too broad, too many variants and too different to really work as a human computer interface. Much like we can't just type what we want and the computer does it, we have to break that down into singular commands, concepts and instructions to make the computer behave, sign language usage would be the same, but a very complex way of doing something much simpler.
Ah yes, but this might be what the US needs in the way of a kick up the arse to improve it's space programs. We should have been on Mars ten years ago. A new space race should be healthy for the world again. I want to see an orbiting construction station or something considerably bigger than the ISS. We have the technology, but no real desire/need to do it.
Until the password handling changed it was a bit of an issue. Having a "live" password for 15 minutes was like holding a ticking grenade. i.e. once you'd entered your password to download the free game (fine) it was also valid for in app purchases until the cooldown wore off. That I think was the major source of this issue, as you've said, now fixed (I think?).
It might be interesting then to establish a quality mark for self-publishers as a way of denoting quality reading. I guess this would really be a publisher who operated entirely around ebooks, but didn't run at the costs of a major publisher. I'm thinking small percent profit instead of $Everything for the sake of handling operating costs. I'd say have a free one, which could also work, but then you'd get a scratch mine scratch yours system where quality could slip, thus defeating the point of the system. A small cost system would work though as it would barely raise the overhead cost of an Ebook for the sake of having a third party body vouch for it.
No idea if British libraries have an ebook thingy or not mind you.
On the note of cost, I wouldn't mind paying £1-3 in addition to the paper book cost for a DRM free ebook copy. That probably covers the relative overheads of hosting, bandwidth and server admins (or something that does) without giving double profits to the publisher. I'm mostly against double dipping for a format change. Cover your overheads, yes, double your profits, ha no.
Quick example: book from Apress (random) http://www.apress.com/9781430230427 - Print: $40, Ebook $28. I understand niche books carry higher costs, but I'm not sure those two carry the same profit margins. In addition to this, Apress do "companion" ebooks for $10. Honestly, I think that's a bit high but the idea is welcome. I Think their ebooks are DRM free, but I can't find it on their site.
To be honest, if their ebooks carried the cost of Profit Margin of Paper Copy + Overhead Of Hosting etc = $Value and that was something closer to the cost set of a "companion" ebook, I'd probably just buy the lot (around a subject in question). Unfortunately they want close to the paper cost, so I'll just buy the odd paper one off Amazon instead.
One still has to buy an ebook even if they own it in paper, pay twice why don't you? In addition, should one want an ebook alone, the cost tends to be comparative to the paper format, or sometimes more, and let us not even mention DRM. I'm waiting for the costs of ebooks to drop to something more reasonable and comparative to the cost of creation/distribution (mostly distribution and production; writing costs will be the same as paper). Admittedly I may be waiting a while, so in that time I'll continue to buy paper books, whilst the whole world of copyleft implodes upon itself and creates a worm hole to L-space.
Generally it does work. As far as I can tell, Ofcom have been kicking some of the ISPs into shape over their operation, marketing and business practices. Ofcom is one of the few government regulators I actually have some respect for. I think they were the cause of Local Loop Unbundling in the first place, which opened up a whole lot more competition for BT and Virgin, and made them get their act together - well, they've improved a little.
I own a 2007 MBP. Flash is too heavy for that. If I fancy emptying my battery in 30 minutes, I allow flash. It's permabanned from the machine for the sake of usability, and it's not a particulary underpowered machine either.
Thing is, Flash stuff is made by artists, and artists are commanded by marketeers, and marketeers exist to annoy the shit out of you, and we all know what Flash ads do... Flash let adverts become the new embedded midi. I browse with flashblock on, with a small whitelist for things like YouTube, but generally it stops my browser doing annoying things like lock up, play sounds I really don't want to hear or throw shit across the site whilst I'm browsing. Like frames, flash will eventually be dropped for the sake of everyone's sanity. Unfortunately JavaScript is allowing web designers to do some more annoying shit again, but it takes longer to appear as it's nowhere near as draggy and droppy as Flash is.
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I wonder if this would also reduce the electrical noise on the car circuits. That would be good news for in car electronics.
In the shed, next to the Gundam.
To make it less useful for snoops, the spatial and temporal accuracy of the data has been artificially reduced. You can only animate week-by-week even though the data is timed to the second, and if you zoom in you’ll see the points are constrained to a grid, so your exact location is not revealed. The underlying database has no such constraints, unfortunately.
That's like covering your eyes and pretending something doesn't exist. The phone will still make more location data and store it next time you sync. Also replacing data != secure.
I believe it's "You wouldn't download a car". Though I do believe, I would if I could. Oh-ho yes.
Intentional misspelling is intentional. My comment is about as profound as the previous, that governments would just disappear quantum physicists for effectively doing "science". I'm not entirely sure I'd see the point. It would just produce a technological dark-age (relatively to the potential of having mainstream quantum machines/computers eventually). The two posts, you see, are entangled. One is spun into silliness in the form of conspiracy, the other is spun in the opposite direction as a Yo Dawg meme.
Although I figured using it as a network interconnect across the planet, say EU to US would be a good start, of course depending how quick you can flip that bit as to whether it's even feasible vs under sea cables. Though saying that I figure it's far more complex than merely using it as an overcomplicated cable. No doubt thinking of traditional uses for quantum processing systems is too simple, but I'm not a quantum physicist so I'm a bit stuck there. The engineer part of me says "Right, now what? Let's find a use for it and start building another one."
So, I herd you like conspiracy theories...
Why would it be mandatory? Mobile Me is opt in (purchase), even time machine is opt-in. Hell, even owning the machine is opt-in. Itunes sharing is opt-in. Where's this mandatory idea come from? Nevar
The OH says it's very useful in noisy environments. It also can be turned into a one handed variant - i.e. drink in other hand, that works quite well for bars.
Unfortunately sign language has a long way to go before it even reaches universality. Gestures defined by companies and product makers will win in that race to evolve. The reason is this, sign language is not even universal in it's own country. There's a misunderstanding by many (including myself originally) that sign language was merely English with hand waving. Really, it's not.
Most of us hearing types think it is, because we just don't know any better. My OH is an interpreter so this comes from a good source. In England we have British Sign Language. This is just one of many forms of sign language used for communication by deaf people but it is not the only way. There's also SSE (sign supported English) which is what alot of deaf educated people use, who have a much better grasp of written english and only relates to BSL as far as BSL is one end of the spectrum and SSE is the other.
The thing is BSL is iconic. A sign represents some arbitrary idea on it's own, until a meaning is attached, with other gestures and the whole set covers a meaning. SSE is closer to typical "english" in it's structure and grammar where signs tend to link more to individual words than concepts. These two are besides the many many other variants, mid points and such on the scale of "sign language used by british people". Something I just didn't know until my OH told me.
If there's a deaf person on here they may be able to build upon what I've just said, as I really only have a grasp of how the languages work myself, not a real understanding - I'm not deaf nor do I know sign language as a language.
Basically my point is (I think), sign language is too broad, too many variants and too different to really work as a human computer interface. Much like we can't just type what we want and the computer does it, we have to break that down into singular commands, concepts and instructions to make the computer behave, sign language usage would be the same, but a very complex way of doing something much simpler.
This, is how they work!
Ah yes, but this might be what the US needs in the way of a kick up the arse to improve it's space programs. We should have been on Mars ten years ago. A new space race should be healthy for the world again. I want to see an orbiting construction station or something considerably bigger than the ISS. We have the technology, but no real desire/need to do it.
How about going 50-50 with Amazon? Just buy the lot together, and then fire all the idiots at the top.
Until the password handling changed it was a bit of an issue. Having a "live" password for 15 minutes was like holding a ticking grenade. i.e. once you'd entered your password to download the free game (fine) it was also valid for in app purchases until the cooldown wore off. That I think was the major source of this issue, as you've said, now fixed (I think?).
It might be interesting then to establish a quality mark for self-publishers as a way of denoting quality reading. I guess this would really be a publisher who operated entirely around ebooks, but didn't run at the costs of a major publisher. I'm thinking small percent profit instead of $Everything for the sake of handling operating costs. I'd say have a free one, which could also work, but then you'd get a scratch mine scratch yours system where quality could slip, thus defeating the point of the system. A small cost system would work though as it would barely raise the overhead cost of an Ebook for the sake of having a third party body vouch for it.
No idea if British libraries have an ebook thingy or not mind you.
On the note of cost, I wouldn't mind paying £1-3 in addition to the paper book cost for a DRM free ebook copy. That probably covers the relative overheads of hosting, bandwidth and server admins (or something that does) without giving double profits to the publisher. I'm mostly against double dipping for a format change. Cover your overheads, yes, double your profits, ha no.
Quick example: book from Apress (random) http://www.apress.com/9781430230427 - Print: $40, Ebook $28. I understand niche books carry higher costs, but I'm not sure those two carry the same profit margins. In addition to this, Apress do "companion" ebooks for $10. Honestly, I think that's a bit high but the idea is welcome. I Think their ebooks are DRM free, but I can't find it on their site.
To be honest, if their ebooks carried the cost of Profit Margin of Paper Copy + Overhead Of Hosting etc = $Value and that was something closer to the cost set of a "companion" ebook, I'd probably just buy the lot (around a subject in question). Unfortunately they want close to the paper cost, so I'll just buy the odd paper one off Amazon instead.
One still has to buy an ebook even if they own it in paper, pay twice why don't you? In addition, should one want an ebook alone, the cost tends to be comparative to the paper format, or sometimes more, and let us not even mention DRM. I'm waiting for the costs of ebooks to drop to something more reasonable and comparative to the cost of creation/distribution (mostly distribution and production; writing costs will be the same as paper). Admittedly I may be waiting a while, so in that time I'll continue to buy paper books, whilst the whole world of copyleft implodes upon itself and creates a worm hole to L-space.
Generally it does work. As far as I can tell, Ofcom have been kicking some of the ISPs into shape over their operation, marketing and business practices. Ofcom is one of the few government regulators I actually have some respect for. I think they were the cause of Local Loop Unbundling in the first place, which opened up a whole lot more competition for BT and Virgin, and made them get their act together - well, they've improved a little.
And here I was, going to compare it to putting a band-aid over a bullet wound.
I guess they both make a good FUD pie.
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I own a 2007 MBP. Flash is too heavy for that. If I fancy emptying my battery in 30 minutes, I allow flash. It's permabanned from the machine for the sake of usability, and it's not a particulary underpowered machine either.
Thing is, Flash stuff is made by artists, and artists are commanded by marketeers, and marketeers exist to annoy the shit out of you, and we all know what Flash ads do... Flash let adverts become the new embedded midi. I browse with flashblock on, with a small whitelist for things like YouTube, but generally it stops my browser doing annoying things like lock up, play sounds I really don't want to hear or throw shit across the site whilst I'm browsing. Like frames, flash will eventually be dropped for the sake of everyone's sanity. Unfortunately JavaScript is allowing web designers to do some more annoying shit again, but it takes longer to appear as it's nowhere near as draggy and droppy as Flash is.
I heard you like you like Predators, so we put a Predator on your Predator so you can spy while you spy.
Watched TFV on TFA, very interesting. Something to play with soon I think.