Well, your container application would override some of the keys (onBackButton for example) to do nothing, making it harder to leave the app. Or you could use key events (http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/KeyEvent.html) to have them fire an event when a key is pressed, that you'd have to configure to your liking. Your only problem would be the home button key, since it doesn't return any value when pressed.
The gateway specified in the DHCP field would be enough to filter things, I'd say. Just have your named.conf give specific information to the tablet's MAC address. And then have all requests made to that gw go where you want them to. Or did I miss something?
The thing is, Angry Birds is a nice mechanic that you play for 5-15 minutes at a time. And why is that? Maybe because the senseless act of throwing birds at pigs, even though it is fun, it's not engaging enough.
A good book has no action but it's capable of hooking you for hours at a time. The story is a layer of emotion and it is essential to most games that do not present themselves as depicting some kind of activity (ie. driving, simulation, sports, etc).
And why can't there be both genres? Story driven games with great gameplay? Bioshock is a great example of how to combine both really well.
If you give games no narrative and only gameplay you're doing Tetris, bejeweled or angry birds. Those are the kinds of games where you spend 10-15 minutes at a time and then leave to do something else.
But the thing that really defeats his thesis is the commercial success. If there is a market for story driven games (like the millions each Final Fantasy sells) then there a case supporting their development. His personal opinion is that games should have fun gameplay, but I enjoy the Final Fantasy kind of mechanic (I've played them all top to bottom up to the 12th and skipping) and I thoroughly enjoyed every minute I spent on them (even going back and playing some of them more than once and even twice).
It would be really easy to make a compelling argument that all games should focus on story only, but it'd be highly biased and irrational. There is space for both.
Google does have an R&D department, but you should also notice that most of that "research" that Andoroid has to pay for is based on overly broad patents that were granted before there was any kind of scrutiny.
The big problem is, it seems to be more expensive to take microsoft to court and go through a long legal battle than simply pay for them, and that's why almost no one does.
Did you invent a new protocol that speeds up mobile computing? Did you develop a new communication device that revolutionizes anything? Then you should be compensated. But don't say that "a device with a screen and that has a browser and when the browser loads we show an icon moving" is innovation and should be worth 500 million dollars.
What I'd really want to know is if it is more efficient to use a solar panel to charge the battery to then separate the salt or simply to use the sun to desalinate the water using the tradition process.
Ohh, so I beat you in an argument and then you insult me. Because culture and hobbies clearly mean I live in a basement ): .
You were the first one mentioning that the engineers would have thought of the naive solutions to the problems. What you failed to notice was that all 3 of the methods I described are not naive solutions, they are known problems of any GPS system. But I guess that anyone with the knowhow of the drawbacks of GPS lives in a basement and is a jerkoff, making all their arguments invalid. Right? (:
Oh fuck, you're slow. People weren't trying that hard to get into cactus because IT ALREADY HAD MP3's. Why would you rip something that gave you access to the files already?
Then key2audio came along and said "not even that", and then people found the marker trick. Eish, it's like talking to a wall.
And do you even know how modern alarm systems work? They use GPS ffs. Are you playing dumb on purpose or are you just THAT ignorant? If they can't solve then gps connectivity problem in a vital system, you're saying that you can?
And notice the " " around solution. You can make it hard to deactivate, you can't avoid it if someone has the know how. And that's the problem. But I guess the only jerkoffs can see it! (:
So, you're saying that the mighty engineers at the insurance company wouldn't have been able to build a system with those specs? Poor guys.
On other news, you can do all that with an Arduino and an old mobile phone, at home and without much trouble. Actually, sorry, that's just the jerkoffs, I doubt you could.
No, the one in that CD was not the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key2Audio , even though it was later discovered that that one could also be circumvented by the same method. But if you knew what it was, it actually already brought the CD ripped from you, leaving you out of the full uncompressed music track and it worked on computers, so it had nothing to do with the marker discovery. Key2Audio simply limited the cd's ability to be played on computers.
The second part of the article mentions it, but I'm guessing you read the first few lines and came right over ( just like a jerkoff).
And that approach, please, if the GPS is installed on the car after it was bought, then it is accessible. You can just leave the battery there and let it drain. If you cut any connection to the battery, it'll die out, eventually. The accelerometer approach is really what you're going for? Do you know how one works? The only thing it'd show is extreme changes in velocity, how the hell does that deal with things like swerving to avoid a cat or suddenly stopping on a crosswalk? And remember that the ride on some cars is completely different from others - an irresponsibly driven SUV will hardly trip any accelerometer due to a high linear momentum, while a very small compact like the ones driven in europe (ex: Citroën C1) will trip it all the time.
Please, do continue with your idiotic diarrhea of ideas, I'm enjoying myself (:
There is actually are actually some "solutions" to the problem I gave you that would make it harder to cut the power to the gps, but it has nothing to do with batteries.
Because what you're trying to solve has yet to be 100% resolved by any after-market car alarm solution (to my knowledge). And they are in the business of protecting the car, so it is a system that cannot fail. And yet, they do.
Oh, forgot the "great" quote about the technology being affordable.
GPS sensors have been dirt cheap for, at least, 3 years. If someone wanted this done, they could. When someone pays around 300€ / year for car insurance, that's not excuse.
Actually, they came up with the CD "trick" the exact same day it was put on sale. I can't tell that it took 3 seconds, but no matter the GPS implementation, what I said stands.
I also hate the jerkoff posters that assume they even thought of anything else besides giving their users a GPS that logs what they do. They'll most likely try check of any discrepancies afterwards. And if you have an accident while your GPS is off, then you're f*cked.
Everything I said stands, if you cut the power, cover the sensor or jam it, you'll foil it. You also forget that some jerkoff posters might also be engineers, might even be better than the engineers of said company and could have some experience working with GPS devices (granted, not that particular tom tom one, my main focus was a portable gps).
On the other hand, please describe a GPS device that can foil any of those 3 approaches. Bashing someone just because the internet gives you the "power" is all great, but it's time you prove you even have the authority to badmouth anyone on the matter.
Is it just me that never had that much trouble writing 1 handed? Just get a decent keyboard for your device and you're golden... Swiftkey's ability to predit "awsqhyhuqi" as "confort" is astounding (:
if this works and no one "foils" the system I give it less than 5 years till it becomes highly recommended and 10 till it is almost mandatory (with exponential price hike for those that don't agree with it).
on the other hand, you can already generate your own GPS signal, so it wouldn't be too hard to foil the system in an undetectable way.
You know, there is a reason why this hasn't been done before, and I'm sure it wasn't because insurance people are nice and don't want to invade your privacy.
Yes, but anything can trip a high acceleration value, so even if they have them, how do you propose differentiating the GPS falling to the ground because it wasn't placed correctly or someone hitting it with something by mistake with that swerve you were talking about?
I did some work on detecting road conditions using mobile phones as sensors, and I can assure you that the accelerometer is far from a reliable tool by itself.
Didn't see it in the article, but that is a minefield for false positives (for example, if your gps fell to the floor of the car that would register as something major).
Still quite sure I would be able to foil the badass gps with anything from cutting the power supply to covering it with something. My current GPS loses signal if not placed next to the front window, so I don't think it'd be that hard.
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Well, your container application would override some of the keys (onBackButton for example) to do nothing, making it harder to leave the app. Or you could use key events (http://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/KeyEvent.html) to have them fire an event when a key is pressed, that you'd have to configure to your liking. Your only problem would be the home button key, since it doesn't return any value when pressed.
From what I gather from reading tidbits here and there ( http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2079691/overriding-the-home-button-how-do-i-get-rid-of-the-choice ) you'd have to make your app have an intent to be the launcher and make it the default launcher in the settings. Pressing the home key would just fire the app once again.
The gateway specified in the DHCP field would be enough to filter things, I'd say. Just have your named.conf give specific information to the tablet's MAC address. And then have all requests made to that gw go where you want them to. Or did I miss something?
Eish, way to be literal. Action, as in, you don't have to do anything besides read...
The thing is, Angry Birds is a nice mechanic that you play for 5-15 minutes at a time. And why is that? Maybe because the senseless act of throwing birds at pigs, even though it is fun, it's not engaging enough.
A good book has no action but it's capable of hooking you for hours at a time. The story is a layer of emotion and it is essential to most games that do not present themselves as depicting some kind of activity (ie. driving, simulation, sports, etc).
And why can't there be both genres? Story driven games with great gameplay? Bioshock is a great example of how to combine both really well.
If you give games no narrative and only gameplay you're doing Tetris, bejeweled or angry birds. Those are the kinds of games where you spend 10-15 minutes at a time and then leave to do something else.
But the thing that really defeats his thesis is the commercial success. If there is a market for story driven games (like the millions each Final Fantasy sells) then there a case supporting their development. His personal opinion is that games should have fun gameplay, but I enjoy the Final Fantasy kind of mechanic (I've played them all top to bottom up to the 12th and skipping) and I thoroughly enjoyed every minute I spent on them (even going back and playing some of them more than once and even twice).
It would be really easy to make a compelling argument that all games should focus on story only, but it'd be highly biased and irrational. There is space for both.
Google does have an R&D department, but you should also notice that most of that "research" that Andoroid has to pay for is based on overly broad patents that were granted before there was any kind of scrutiny.
The big problem is, it seems to be more expensive to take microsoft to court and go through a long legal battle than simply pay for them, and that's why almost no one does.
I'm all for patent licencing when you've actually done something good, but describing a general idea like this http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5,778,372.PN.&OS=PN/5,778,372&RS=PN/5,778,372 or this http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=6,339,780.PN.&OS=PN/6,339,780&RS=PN/6,339,780
Did you invent a new protocol that speeds up mobile computing? Did you develop a new communication device that revolutionizes anything? Then you should be compensated. But don't say that "a device with a screen and that has a browser and when the browser loads we show an icon moving" is innovation and should be worth 500 million dollars.
The article states 25% desalination for the first pass, and the limit at 50%, so I assume they already ran it more than once.
What I'd really want to know is if it is more efficient to use a solar panel to charge the battery to then separate the salt or simply to use the sun to desalinate the water using the tradition process.
(: yep, because facts vs your diarrhea hurts ):
Ohh, so I beat you in an argument and then you insult me. Because culture and hobbies clearly mean I live in a basement ): .
You were the first one mentioning that the engineers would have thought of the naive solutions to the problems. What you failed to notice was that all 3 of the methods I described are not naive solutions, they are known problems of any GPS system. But I guess that anyone with the knowhow of the drawbacks of GPS lives in a basement and is a jerkoff, making all their arguments invalid. Right? (:
Oh fuck, you're slow. People weren't trying that hard to get into cactus because IT ALREADY HAD MP3's. Why would you rip something that gave you access to the files already?
Then key2audio came along and said "not even that", and then people found the marker trick. Eish, it's like talking to a wall.
And do you even know how modern alarm systems work? They use GPS ffs. Are you playing dumb on purpose or are you just THAT ignorant? If they can't solve then gps connectivity problem in a vital system, you're saying that you can?
And notice the " " around solution. You can make it hard to deactivate, you can't avoid it if someone has the know how. And that's the problem. But I guess the only jerkoffs can see it! (:
So, you're saying that the mighty engineers at the insurance company wouldn't have been able to build a system with those specs? Poor guys.
On other news, you can do all that with an Arduino and an old mobile phone, at home and without much trouble. Actually, sorry, that's just the jerkoffs, I doubt you could.
No, the one in that CD was not the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Key2Audio , even though it was later discovered that that one could also be circumvented by the same method. But if you knew what it was, it actually already brought the CD ripped from you, leaving you out of the full uncompressed music track and it worked on computers, so it had nothing to do with the marker discovery. Key2Audio simply limited the cd's ability to be played on computers.
The second part of the article mentions it, but I'm guessing you read the first few lines and came right over ( just like a jerkoff).
And that approach, please, if the GPS is installed on the car after it was bought, then it is accessible. You can just leave the battery there and let it drain. If you cut any connection to the battery, it'll die out, eventually. The accelerometer approach is really what you're going for? Do you know how one works? The only thing it'd show is extreme changes in velocity, how the hell does that deal with things like swerving to avoid a cat or suddenly stopping on a crosswalk? And remember that the ride on some cars is completely different from others - an irresponsibly driven SUV will hardly trip any accelerometer due to a high linear momentum, while a very small compact like the ones driven in europe (ex: Citroën C1) will trip it all the time.
Please, do continue with your idiotic diarrhea of ideas, I'm enjoying myself (:
There is actually are actually some "solutions" to the problem I gave you that would make it harder to cut the power to the gps, but it has nothing to do with batteries.
Because what you're trying to solve has yet to be 100% resolved by any after-market car alarm solution (to my knowledge). And they are in the business of protecting the car, so it is a system that cannot fail. And yet, they do.
Oh, forgot the "great" quote about the technology being affordable.
GPS sensors have been dirt cheap for, at least, 3 years. If someone wanted this done, they could. When someone pays around 300€ / year for car insurance, that's not excuse.
Actually, they came up with the CD "trick" the exact same day it was put on sale. I can't tell that it took 3 seconds, but no matter the GPS implementation, what I said stands.
I also hate the jerkoff posters that assume they even thought of anything else besides giving their users a GPS that logs what they do. They'll most likely try check of any discrepancies afterwards. And if you have an accident while your GPS is off, then you're f*cked.
Everything I said stands, if you cut the power, cover the sensor or jam it, you'll foil it. You also forget that some jerkoff posters might also be engineers, might even be better than the engineers of said company and could have some experience working with GPS devices (granted, not that particular tom tom one, my main focus was a portable gps).
On the other hand, please describe a GPS device that can foil any of those 3 approaches. Bashing someone just because the internet gives you the "power" is all great, but it's time you prove you even have the authority to badmouth anyone on the matter.
Ohh, the grammar police. Sorry, didn't recognize you with that nickname.
My main language is not English, so I'm very sorry for having touched you in inappropriate places. I'll do my best not to do it again ):
it was meant as an example, just like "Landkfs" he sees as "Pandora". What's funny about great technology?
Is it just me that never had that much trouble writing 1 handed? Just get a decent keyboard for your device and you're golden... Swiftkey's ability to predit "awsqhyhuqi" as "confort" is astounding (:
if this works and no one "foils" the system I give it less than 5 years till it becomes highly recommended and 10 till it is almost mandatory (with exponential price hike for those that don't agree with it).
on the other hand, you can already generate your own GPS signal, so it wouldn't be too hard to foil the system in an undetectable way.
i'm not worried.
I've lost GSP signal while running in a park, so that's all very nice until you lose the 3+ satellites you need to keep track of yourself.
And if the GPS did fail because of a genuine loss of signal, then what?
You know, there is a reason why this hasn't been done before, and I'm sure it wasn't because insurance people are nice and don't want to invade your privacy.
And why are their engineers better than anyone else? Do you remember this? http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05/14/marker_pens_sticky_tape_crack/ . I do (:
Yes, but anything can trip a high acceleration value, so even if they have them, how do you propose differentiating the GPS falling to the ground because it wasn't placed correctly or someone hitting it with something by mistake with that swerve you were talking about?
I did some work on detecting road conditions using mobile phones as sensors, and I can assure you that the accelerometer is far from a reliable tool by itself.
Didn't see it in the article, but that is a minefield for false positives (for example, if your gps fell to the floor of the car that would register as something major).
Still quite sure I would be able to foil the badass gps with anything from cutting the power supply to covering it with something. My current GPS loses signal if not placed next to the front window, so I don't think it'd be that hard.