About a billion years ago I had a clunky MythTV box under the TV that did this. It was pretty good at detecting and skipping commercials... though not perfect. Has anyone seen how well this feature works on the Dish hardware?
So Open Office in the cloud would have to focus on co-operation on documents to make sense.
I think you're right on this, it'd be a nice way to add some value. One of the few reasons I ever use google's online office stuff is for quick and easy online collaboration in, say, a spreadsheet some friends and I are using.
In most cases I'm not interested in setting up traditional version control for documents. Even if I was willing to deal with it, my friends wouldn't be. Sharing a document with any of the locally cached "cloud storage" services involves file locking issues and no live collaboration. Emailing back and forth is worse than any of the above.
So a google docs style version of Open Office that I could choose to host myself would be pretty cool. I imagine it'd be even better for folks that don't like the idea of Google having access to their stuff (though it doesn't much worry me).
This is to determine which one is positioned where.
Wifi doesn't help with that. Even GPS doesn't help here because we're talking about very small relative distances. But the challenge and commands might well happen over wifi, bluetooth, or as is popular in these kinds of things, point to multipoint with xbee modules.
Or I'd just rather not have to push and pull everything over a radio at all, eating up disk space with a local cache anyway?
I like being able to add storage to my phone and tablet (both android devices). I pick the size, speed, and price. I also like being able to plug in a thumbdrive if I want to. I think it's a valid preference, full stop. And it sounds like microsoft did this part right (I don't own a surface).
I've only had one device where the preload size really pissed me off, and that's the Xbox. And only because I had to get their ridiculously overpriced drives, and go through the aggravation of swapping them out. I guess now they allow some things to be pushed off the console to a usb drive.
I've been saying for a while that there should be something like version control on the summaries. Maybe just show a "diff" link underneath and last edited hh:mm.
To the credit of whoever submitted the summary, this one was explicit about, "Something worked well in a lab", instead of the usual, "Your Batteries Will Soon Be 3x's Better!"
What's illegal and what deserves an ass kicking have two very different criteria.
But there are a number of places I can think of where I would like to see that guy try this stunt. None of them are at a Starbucks in a nice neighborhood.
I wouldn't say it should be anyone's first priority, but music players have had that since we were wearing onions on our belts (as was the style at the time). Some folks must want it.
I should point out that while I've had the usual contract law courses you have to take in college, I am not a lawyer.
A lot of what we're talking about here reminds me of those stupid, unsolicited, unilateral contracts at the bottom of emails. I usually have to agree to enter into a contract with you... I can't believe those obnoxious things are actually valid.:p
I think terms like the latter (the former cannot be enforced by contract in the US) might well be considered evidence that there was no consideration and consent. At least, if they're just stuffed in a hidden TOS somewhere and not explicitly spelled out, presented to the user, understood and agreed to by the second party.
You'll note this particular/. article is about deficiencies exactly like that... where there's reason to believe the user didn't consider and consent to the ToS. So the judge invalidated it.
They've already budgeted for drones for the Cook County Sheriffs Dept (think all of Chicagoland) and have requests in with the FAA to fly them.
What they've been talking about are the smallish ones that fit in the back of a police SUV. They cost less than a car, so they can afford those.
Of course, it's only a matter of time until they start using much larger ones that can linger for a long, long time. They'll just have to coordinate with O'Hare for the high volume of air traffic.
I'm not the GP, but I'd guess the FBI wouldn't spend all of its time and resource tracking down, catching, and incarcerating thousands of random (and relatively harmless) spammers in Shantytown, Nigeria. At least not so much that you'd notice a big change by way of random sample.
More likely they're trying to deal with larger criminal operations developing malware and such to steal credit cards, and getting foreign law enforcement the appropriate info to deal with them. I could be wrong though... I don't work for them or anything.
I'd agree with you, as I have no problem with the death sentence on the surface of it. I do, however, have zero tolerance for fuck-ups when the stakes are that high.
As it turned out, a few people with death sentences in my state were falsely convicted and later cleared. I'm still not sure it's better that they were imprisoned for many decades instead... but that's not for me to say.
In short, you pretend to be the cell network and pass communication through. The handsets generally don't care or warn the user, you can issue all kinds of instructions to the handsets, it doesn't take a whole lot of gear, and you're now the network before the network.
In response to Apple calling Surface, "a car that flies and floats [but doesn't] do any of those things particularly well", he called the iPad Mini, "a ripoff", and "a seven inch recreational tablet".
I'd rather everyone just moved on to simple.wikipedia.org now. Many of the articles are waaay too dense for me to grok, and most of the 'simple' versions just don't exist yet.
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About a billion years ago I had a clunky MythTV box under the TV that did this. It was pretty good at detecting and skipping commercials... though not perfect. Has anyone seen how well this feature works on the Dish hardware?
So Open Office in the cloud would have to focus on co-operation on documents to make sense.
I think you're right on this, it'd be a nice way to add some value. One of the few reasons I ever use google's online office stuff is for quick and easy online collaboration in, say, a spreadsheet some friends and I are using.
In most cases I'm not interested in setting up traditional version control for documents. Even if I was willing to deal with it, my friends wouldn't be. Sharing a document with any of the locally cached "cloud storage" services involves file locking issues and no live collaboration. Emailing back and forth is worse than any of the above.
So a google docs style version of Open Office that I could choose to host myself would be pretty cool. I imagine it'd be even better for folks that don't like the idea of Google having access to their stuff (though it doesn't much worry me).
This is to determine which one is positioned where.
Wifi doesn't help with that. Even GPS doesn't help here because we're talking about very small relative distances. But the challenge and commands might well happen over wifi, bluetooth, or as is popular in these kinds of things, point to multipoint with xbee modules.
Or I'd just rather not have to push and pull everything over a radio at all, eating up disk space with a local cache anyway?
I like being able to add storage to my phone and tablet (both android devices). I pick the size, speed, and price. I also like being able to plug in a thumbdrive if I want to. I think it's a valid preference, full stop. And it sounds like microsoft did this part right (I don't own a surface).
I've only had one device where the preload size really pissed me off, and that's the Xbox. And only because I had to get their ridiculously overpriced drives, and go through the aggravation of swapping them out. I guess now they allow some things to be pushed off the console to a usb drive.
It's a series of images that, when stitched, conveniently exclude the arm.
I've been saying for a while that there should be something like version control on the summaries. Maybe just show a "diff" link underneath and last edited hh:mm.
To the credit of whoever submitted the summary, this one was explicit about, "Something worked well in a lab", instead of the usual, "Your Batteries Will Soon Be 3x's Better!"
What's illegal and what deserves an ass kicking have two very different criteria.
But there are a number of places I can think of where I would like to see that guy try this stunt. None of them are at a Starbucks in a nice neighborhood.
Ok? Next time don't buy an iphone?
Point was nobody should be surprised they're trying to be a little more careful about software releases.
Like that company that pushed out iOS 6 with the Maps application that everyone was so impressed by?
Like that company that recently shoved the VP's in charge of those bungled releases out the door.
I wouldn't say it should be anyone's first priority, but music players have had that since we were wearing onions on our belts (as was the style at the time). Some folks must want it.
I should point out that while I've had the usual contract law courses you have to take in college, I am not a lawyer.
A lot of what we're talking about here reminds me of those stupid, unsolicited, unilateral contracts at the bottom of emails. I usually have to agree to enter into a contract with you... I can't believe those obnoxious things are actually valid. :p
I think terms like the latter (the former cannot be enforced by contract in the US) might well be considered evidence that there was no consideration and consent. At least, if they're just stuffed in a hidden TOS somewhere and not explicitly spelled out, presented to the user, understood and agreed to by the second party.
You'll note this particular /. article is about deficiencies exactly like that... where there's reason to believe the user didn't consider and consent to the ToS. So the judge invalidated it.
You'd be confusing right to trial by jury in a criminal case with civil suits.
People do often agree in contracts ahead-of-time to settle any future disputes by way of binding arbitration.
I would absolutely agree, on both counts, but change how?
I think everyone has a pretty good idea of how ridiculous these things are, despite the fact that they don't read them.
On one side you've got, "Yeah, yeah... you own my first born, now let me at the stuff I want!"
On the other you've got, "Make sure we've covered everything except ownership of their first born... people are assholes and sue over everything."
They've already budgeted for drones for the Cook County Sheriffs Dept (think all of Chicagoland) and have requests in with the FAA to fly them.
What they've been talking about are the smallish ones that fit in the back of a police SUV. They cost less than a car, so they can afford those.
Of course, it's only a matter of time until they start using much larger ones that can linger for a long, long time. They'll just have to coordinate with O'Hare for the high volume of air traffic.
I'm not the GP, but I'd guess the FBI wouldn't spend all of its time and resource tracking down, catching, and incarcerating thousands of random (and relatively harmless) spammers in Shantytown, Nigeria. At least not so much that you'd notice a big change by way of random sample.
More likely they're trying to deal with larger criminal operations developing malware and such to steal credit cards, and getting foreign law enforcement the appropriate info to deal with them. I could be wrong though... I don't work for them or anything.
An over-priced slow server, ARM will grow to dominate the market. The same way Intel's slow and over priced servers have become commonplace.
Well we'd try something else, but it turns out monkeys with notepads and crayons are even slower (and more expensive).
Biodegradable, though.
I'd agree with you, as I have no problem with the death sentence on the surface of it. I do, however, have zero tolerance for fuck-ups when the stakes are that high.
As it turned out, a few people with death sentences in my state were falsely convicted and later cleared. I'm still not sure it's better that they were imprisoned for many decades instead... but that's not for me to say.
Yeah it got a little wonky up top. And the shiny bit up front is annoying, though I guess it'll disappear on the water.
I get the feeling they were aiming for old school minimalism... I pictured something like the Farnsworth House.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Farnsworth_House_2006.jpg
If 'stingray' is the IMSI catcher MITM device, you can watch these from a defcon demonstration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjYAAmHvt-g
In short, you pretend to be the cell network and pass communication through. The handsets generally don't care or warn the user, you can issue all kinds of instructions to the handsets, it doesn't take a whole lot of gear, and you're now the network before the network.
Yeah, just occasionally, products do poorly because they're not the best products.
Crazy, I know! ;)
He hasn't been all puppy dogs and ice cream, wrt Apple devices.
http://bgr.com/2012/10/26/microsoft-executive-sinofsky-interview-ipad-mini-criticis/
In response to Apple calling Surface, "a car that flies and floats [but doesn't] do any of those things particularly well", he called the iPad Mini, "a ripoff", and "a seven inch recreational tablet".
I'd rather everyone just moved on to simple.wikipedia.org now. Many of the articles are waaay too dense for me to grok, and most of the 'simple' versions just don't exist yet.