Don't worry - it doesn't work unless you're dictating useless drivel like emails to your mother or coordinating a dinner date with friends. As soon as you step even slightly outside of the standard 1000 word American vocabulary it mangles everything. I have tried it for use in work (engineering, architecture) and for fun (music and theater) and the error rate is several percent. Now, a 93% correct rate seems awesome until you have to go back and manually edit 100 words scattered throughout a 1500 word report, and even a single mis-typed word can be embarrassing. It's much faster to type.
I actually find that typing short emails or forum posts on the iPad when in landscape is fairly efficient. But, as the OP mentioned, actual correction is challenging and frustrating. If Johnny Carson were playing the Amazing Kreskin, the answer would be "Arrows"; the question would be "what iPad users would like to shoot Steve Job s with for his keyboard layout."
Require manufacture in commercial quantities. If you invent something that doesn't make it to market in some fashion for more than 4 years, you really have no leg to stand on, imho. The conditions where this would exist are so marginal as to be academic.
Even if you're a little fish, you would be able to play the big operators against one another. License to one of them for a dollar, then the rest will be 20 years our or have to pay up. It's all a game. Few companies are so patient to wait four years, betting that none of the other guys will go behind their backs and screw them.
I'd even be in favor or statutory licensing based on number of units produced - choose your basic rate that covers 99.9% of items ($10,000ea/1, $2000ea/10. $400ea/100, $80ea/1000, $16ea/10,000, $3ea/100,000, $.45ea/1,000,000, $.10ea/10,000,000) but allow private negotiation as well - like mechanical licensing fees but on a sliding scale for low production qty items.
Civil - there is at least one case of someone winning over a wrongful takedown. I can't remember the name now. I suspect it's probably not worth the time/money of a lawyer, which is why the content industry feels they are so safe in just blanketing with takedowns.
I wish I had it, 'cause I get it. I'm on 4M/768k DSL service - it's the fastest I can get without getting worked over by (historically unreliable, but faster) Comcast cable - those are my only two terrestrial options. I'm effectively locked out of all of the cloud services because my upstream is so slow. Even with 1Mb, your upstream makes it difficult to backup to a cloud service. I have ~250GB-300GB of data, closer to 450GB of data if you include audio, but that's months of upload time. I've done it once, then the service - LiveDrive - went down for 3 weeks and lost about 3/4 of my data. It affected how I worked, but I always keep up to date off-line copies so I didn't lose anything. Still, the thought of saturating my connections for months (and degrading VoIP and slowing down everything else we do) has kept me from getting on to other services.
Having 100/100 symmetrical (or faster) internet is nice because you're no longer waiting for data. Even at 10Mb, you're spending minutes waiting for downloads. That sounds funny for those of us who remember 300baud (or slower) modems, but there's no reason why waiting should be a given for internet. For a given price, I would rather have a 500GB cap/quota and Gb internet speed than a 4Mb line (which can download 1.2TB/mo).
You do realize that most of the "socialized healthcare" law came straight out of the Republican recommendations of less than 10 years ago and, with the exception of providing vouchers(!) for those who are lower income to buy commercial insurance, is nearly identical to the right's plan as a counter to the Democrats call for a single payer system?
You obviously have never heard of Keyens, either, or remember that in 1929, Herbert Hoover actually implemented many of the Tea Party recommendations in an attempt to prevent the national debt from growing as the federal government's income revenue shrank. Not only did it spiral the unemployment rate to 20%, but even when FDR implemented (effectively) Keyensian economics by leveraging the US governnment to create jobs it took 6 more years for the economy to stabilize. In 80 years we haven't had as wild a bubble burst, and yet the current presidents approach to stopping the hemmoraging - which worked almost immediately - is considered a failure? You do realize that the previous 6 years of growth was based solely on margin spending of consumers based on inflated values of their homes - and now that the market has corrected there is no more real estate to leverage in the same way, and nobody else in the world has any consumer money to spend either?
Did you miss the part about BHO getting rid of Don't Ask, Don't Tell? Did you miss how he promised health care reform and - even though you clearly don't need it - actually passed it? Did you miss how he promised to re-regulate the Financial industry, and put forth and passed legislation to do so, only to have the Republican held congress refuse to enact, fund, or appoint people to run it? Did you miss the part where he planned to pull us out of Iraq, and to draw down the surge in Afghanistan.
Has is been so long - 3-1/2 years - that you forget that the rest of the world hated us so fucking much that they gave him the Nobel prize for simply not being GW Bush? No, of course he didn't deserve it, but the whole rest of the world hated Bush and Cheney so much they gave hi a medal and a million dollars just for not being them. Let me repeat that - our allies don't hate our guts any more. Even the neutral states think we're okay now. Did you notice that, when Egypt and Libya went apeshit we didn't have to mobilize ground troops. Hell, we were barely involve. Our allies took that over and we didn't have to put on our cowboy boots and lead the charge.
As for corporate value, I'm not sure where you've been hiding where the Dow Jones doesn't get reported, but from when GWB took office in 2001 to when the bubble burst in 2008 - the peak!- the market went up by 32%, and then fell crashing down for a NET LOSS OF VALUE UNDER G W BUSH of nearly 23%, start to finish. That was my God damned 401k retirement fund. Holy shit that sucks. Since Obama took office, the market is up...sit down for this...62%. That's right, and that doesn't count the low spot - that's from the day they swore him in. In 3.5 years he did DOUBLE for the value of the market what GW Bush did right before the bubble burst. We just had the worst market crash in 80 years, and in 40 months the market is back to within spitting distance (5%, if you're counting) of the all time high.
Are you worried about gas prices? Ever wonder when gas has been the most expensive? Yup G W Bush - mid 2008. Even higher than right now. And do you know why gas is so high? It's not because we're dependent on foreign oil - our dependence has gone DOWN under Obama. It's because we're EXPORTING most of our gas to other countries who are willing to pay more! Gasoline was the #1 (total, top, more than anything else) US EXPORT last year. We're making money hand over fist on it. Are you going to fault Obama for not restricting exports to keep gas prices down, because that would do it. And you know that pipeline through PA Romney is going to build the day he gets into office? It's not for keeping domestic oil in the US, it's to get oil to the gulf where is can be refined and exporte
No, it's exactly lighted e-ink. It is not self-luminescent e-ink, but if it were that would defeat the purpose of e-ink being a reflective surface and easy-to-read. The light is even better than an external light because it has been engineered to provide even lighting, which is almost impossible to get with external lighting solutions.
Yes, because your Google phone is completely fabricated in a first world country with a living, middle class minimum wage and healthcare provided to all of it's citizens.
Except that, unlike oil and diamonds, we're not paying exorbitant rates for these items (at wholesale). We're paying shit. They could double labor costs and there would be no retail price movement on the consumer side. They could triple or quadruple the labor costs and still compete with the US. The amazing thing is that the local corporations in China are the ones screwing their own workers.
This so many times over my head hurts. Oh, and at the same kind of price as a standard Kindle.The eink screen is about $30-40 for a 6" size. presuming there are no barriers to production of a larger size, an 10-11" screen should be on the order of $130-$140. Tack $125 onto it and go. Adding $300 is just insulting.
Really, is Android so phenomenally inferior to Apple that your devices use that much data at idle? Makes me feel much better about my iPad purchase.
I have had an iPhone (and iPad(s)) for about 3 years. In that time, I have exceeded 250MB per month twice. Once was on a trip to NY where I got stuck in a hotel with $10/day wifi and crap for TV for a couple of hours each night while my then 4 year old daughter was ready for bed by 8pm. I surfed the whole time. The other time was on my iPad on a non-wifi train & bus trip back that was 16 hours round trip. By the end, I got bored and was watching youtube vidoes.
Most months I hover around 60MB on my phone and 100-200 on my iPad. I have 200/250MB accounts because they are cheap - $15/mo - and I don't need to stream much of anything. For the cost of the next plan up ($30/mo), I get 64GB of on-device storage which is enough to carry nearly everything I need on a daily basis. I still get email from both my work and personal accounts, do all my calendaring and Google Voice on the phone, get weather updates - including radar maps, use it for GPS (though I use Navigon because I travel to areas without cell coverage), IM, Facebook (way too much), as well as a host of productivity apps. I'll even fire up NPR from time to time when I'm out of range of their OTA signal but in cell range (rarely, I admit). I'm run a small consulting business, so there's no lack of data coming into and going out of my phone.
Unless you're going to graphics heavy pages, streaming video, or streaming audio for significant time while off wifi then sure - you need more data. But for the non-streaming user, 250MB of mobile data a month is going to cover almost all of it. I would happily jump at a $50/yr plan on my iPad and my phone if I were limited to "only" 250MB/mo.
That's a winner for me. I use so little data - I just need a little information most of the time. Give this baby a custom interface for an in-dash entertainment system and I'm all over it.
I think the terms you are looking for are frontlit and thick. Still, I'm a bit disappointed that the DX is such an ugly stepchild. Certainly there's a market for a reasonably priced larger format e-reader.
I'm thinking about returning my recently acquired kindle gen 4 since I may not get to use it much in the next month, and a built in light is a major feature.
If you think a decent standing height table is expensive, you'll be very disappointed in the price premium for a drafting height chair. I have one (a Steelcase Think), and not only was it expensive, but nobody ever seems to clear them out (like the std height Aerons which were being sold for scrap after the last i-bust)
Won't matter. The controls are not in the hardware you print, but in the firmware that makes the printer work. If you can change the firmware, there's no need to make a new printer - just re-write the firmware in the old one.
The prohibition isn't in making the parts, the prohibition is in making it easy to make the parts with low cost hardware.
I'll admit that I know very little of the gun side of the CFR, but I suspect that these guys will find their downfall in the sale of these items. It's one thing to play around with 3D printing, but the temptation (especially for the young entrepreneur) is to start selling to friends. Once those personal hobby items go commercial, that's when you can plan on a ton of bricks for a hat.
I predict that there will be laws (actually, already are) for this, but that as the industry becomes more mature there are going to be soft-safeguards in the commercial printers which actively discourage the fabrication of the most critical gun-like parts (ex: printers will not print cylindroidal parts with inner diameter ranges that match common ammunition).
Have you seen how long it takes for a modern phone to turn on? You may as well leave it home. (I think my iPhone takes several times longer than my desktop to cold boot).
The problem isn't the teachers, or the administration, or the "system." It's the parents. YOU are the problem with the schools because you (and I mean the general "you," not necessarily you in particular) expect that the system will provide day care for your kids in the form of all the learning they can every need and you have no responsibility at all for helping, nurturing, teaching, and guiding them.
Yes, there are poor, unmotivated teachers. There are lazy, useless programmers too. A good set of parents can overcome all but the worst teacher. Even the best teacher in the world can't overcome a set of parents who are indifferent to their child's academic growth.
I agree that adding a bunch of time isn't the answer, but it's time to move away from the agrarian schedule we started with into something that fits a 21st century lifestyle.
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And I suspect that by 2040, they will have most of the kinks worked out of tablet interaction.
Don't worry - it doesn't work unless you're dictating useless drivel like emails to your mother or coordinating a dinner date with friends. As soon as you step even slightly outside of the standard 1000 word American vocabulary it mangles everything. I have tried it for use in work (engineering, architecture) and for fun (music and theater) and the error rate is several percent. Now, a 93% correct rate seems awesome until you have to go back and manually edit 100 words scattered throughout a 1500 word report, and even a single mis-typed word can be embarrassing. It's much faster to type.
I actually find that typing short emails or forum posts on the iPad when in landscape is fairly efficient. But, as the OP mentioned, actual correction is challenging and frustrating. If Johnny Carson were playing the Amazing Kreskin, the answer would be "Arrows"; the question would be "what iPad users would like to shoot Steve Job s with for his keyboard layout."
That would make it obvious to a practitioner skilled in the art, which seems to be the most often missed exception to the patent review process.
Require manufacture in commercial quantities. If you invent something that doesn't make it to market in some fashion for more than 4 years, you really have no leg to stand on, imho. The conditions where this would exist are so marginal as to be academic.
Even if you're a little fish, you would be able to play the big operators against one another. License to one of them for a dollar, then the rest will be 20 years our or have to pay up. It's all a game. Few companies are so patient to wait four years, betting that none of the other guys will go behind their backs and screw them.
I'd even be in favor or statutory licensing based on number of units produced - choose your basic rate that covers 99.9% of items ($10,000ea/1, $2000ea/10. $400ea/100, $80ea/1000, $16ea/10,000, $3ea/100,000, $.45ea/1,000,000, $.10ea/10,000,000) but allow private negotiation as well - like mechanical licensing fees but on a sliding scale for low production qty items.
Civil - there is at least one case of someone winning over a wrongful takedown. I can't remember the name now. I suspect it's probably not worth the time/money of a lawyer, which is why the content industry feels they are so safe in just blanketing with takedowns.
I wish I had it, 'cause I get it. I'm on 4M/768k DSL service - it's the fastest I can get without getting worked over by (historically unreliable, but faster) Comcast cable - those are my only two terrestrial options. I'm effectively locked out of all of the cloud services because my upstream is so slow. Even with 1Mb, your upstream makes it difficult to backup to a cloud service. I have ~250GB-300GB of data, closer to 450GB of data if you include audio, but that's months of upload time. I've done it once, then the service - LiveDrive - went down for 3 weeks and lost about 3/4 of my data. It affected how I worked, but I always keep up to date off-line copies so I didn't lose anything. Still, the thought of saturating my connections for months (and degrading VoIP and slowing down everything else we do) has kept me from getting on to other services.
Having 100/100 symmetrical (or faster) internet is nice because you're no longer waiting for data. Even at 10Mb, you're spending minutes waiting for downloads. That sounds funny for those of us who remember 300baud (or slower) modems, but there's no reason why waiting should be a given for internet. For a given price, I would rather have a 500GB cap/quota and Gb internet speed than a 4Mb line (which can download 1.2TB/mo).
You do realize that most of the "socialized healthcare" law came straight out of the Republican recommendations of less than 10 years ago and, with the exception of providing vouchers(!) for those who are lower income to buy commercial insurance, is nearly identical to the right's plan as a counter to the Democrats call for a single payer system?
You obviously have never heard of Keyens, either, or remember that in 1929, Herbert Hoover actually implemented many of the Tea Party recommendations in an attempt to prevent the national debt from growing as the federal government's income revenue shrank. Not only did it spiral the unemployment rate to 20%, but even when FDR implemented (effectively) Keyensian economics by leveraging the US governnment to create jobs it took 6 more years for the economy to stabilize. In 80 years we haven't had as wild a bubble burst, and yet the current presidents approach to stopping the hemmoraging - which worked almost immediately - is considered a failure? You do realize that the previous 6 years of growth was based solely on margin spending of consumers based on inflated values of their homes - and now that the market has corrected there is no more real estate to leverage in the same way, and nobody else in the world has any consumer money to spend either?
Did you miss the part about BHO getting rid of Don't Ask, Don't Tell? Did you miss how he promised health care reform and - even though you clearly don't need it - actually passed it? Did you miss how he promised to re-regulate the Financial industry, and put forth and passed legislation to do so, only to have the Republican held congress refuse to enact, fund, or appoint people to run it? Did you miss the part where he planned to pull us out of Iraq, and to draw down the surge in Afghanistan.
Has is been so long - 3-1/2 years - that you forget that the rest of the world hated us so fucking much that they gave him the Nobel prize for simply not being GW Bush? No, of course he didn't deserve it, but the whole rest of the world hated Bush and Cheney so much they gave hi a medal and a million dollars just for not being them. Let me repeat that - our allies don't hate our guts any more. Even the neutral states think we're okay now. Did you notice that, when Egypt and Libya went apeshit we didn't have to mobilize ground troops. Hell, we were barely involve. Our allies took that over and we didn't have to put on our cowboy boots and lead the charge.
As for corporate value, I'm not sure where you've been hiding where the Dow Jones doesn't get reported, but from when GWB took office in 2001 to when the bubble burst in 2008 - the peak!- the market went up by 32%, and then fell crashing down for a NET LOSS OF VALUE UNDER G W BUSH of nearly 23%, start to finish. That was my God damned 401k retirement fund. Holy shit that sucks. Since Obama took office, the market is up...sit down for this...62%. That's right, and that doesn't count the low spot - that's from the day they swore him in. In 3.5 years he did DOUBLE for the value of the market what GW Bush did right before the bubble burst. We just had the worst market crash in 80 years, and in 40 months the market is back to within spitting distance (5%, if you're counting) of the all time high.
Are you worried about gas prices? Ever wonder when gas has been the most expensive? Yup G W Bush - mid 2008. Even higher than right now. And do you know why gas is so high? It's not because we're dependent on foreign oil - our dependence has gone DOWN under Obama. It's because we're EXPORTING most of our gas to other countries who are willing to pay more! Gasoline was the #1 (total, top, more than anything else) US EXPORT last year. We're making money hand over fist on it. Are you going to fault Obama for not restricting exports to keep gas prices down, because that would do it. And you know that pipeline through PA Romney is going to build the day he gets into office? It's not for keeping domestic oil in the US, it's to get oil to the gulf where is can be refined and exporte
No, it's exactly lighted e-ink. It is not self-luminescent e-ink, but if it were that would defeat the purpose of e-ink being a reflective surface and easy-to-read. The light is even better than an external light because it has been engineered to provide even lighting, which is almost impossible to get with external lighting solutions.
You don't use search engines much do you. Those results are ad-driven, and include ad content, even if it's not a glitzy flash animation.
Yes, because your Google phone is completely fabricated in a first world country with a living, middle class minimum wage and healthcare provided to all of it's citizens.
Good luck with that.
Except that, unlike oil and diamonds, we're not paying exorbitant rates for these items (at wholesale). We're paying shit. They could double labor costs and there would be no retail price movement on the consumer side. They could triple or quadruple the labor costs and still compete with the US. The amazing thing is that the local corporations in China are the ones screwing their own workers.
This so many times over my head hurts. Oh, and at the same kind of price as a standard Kindle.The eink screen is about $30-40 for a 6" size. presuming there are no barriers to production of a larger size, an 10-11" screen should be on the order of $130-$140. Tack $125 onto it and go. Adding $300 is just insulting.
Really, is Android so phenomenally inferior to Apple that your devices use that much data at idle? Makes me feel much better about my iPad purchase.
I have had an iPhone (and iPad(s)) for about 3 years. In that time, I have exceeded 250MB per month twice. Once was on a trip to NY where I got stuck in a hotel with $10/day wifi and crap for TV for a couple of hours each night while my then 4 year old daughter was ready for bed by 8pm. I surfed the whole time. The other time was on my iPad on a non-wifi train & bus trip back that was 16 hours round trip. By the end, I got bored and was watching youtube vidoes.
Most months I hover around 60MB on my phone and 100-200 on my iPad. I have 200/250MB accounts because they are cheap - $15/mo - and I don't need to stream much of anything. For the cost of the next plan up ($30/mo), I get 64GB of on-device storage which is enough to carry nearly everything I need on a daily basis. I still get email from both my work and personal accounts, do all my calendaring and Google Voice on the phone, get weather updates - including radar maps, use it for GPS (though I use Navigon because I travel to areas without cell coverage), IM, Facebook (way too much), as well as a host of productivity apps. I'll even fire up NPR from time to time when I'm out of range of their OTA signal but in cell range (rarely, I admit). I'm run a small consulting business, so there's no lack of data coming into and going out of my phone.
Unless you're going to graphics heavy pages, streaming video, or streaming audio for significant time while off wifi then sure - you need more data. But for the non-streaming user, 250MB of mobile data a month is going to cover almost all of it. I would happily jump at a $50/yr plan on my iPad and my phone if I were limited to "only" 250MB/mo.
That's a winner for me. I use so little data - I just need a little information most of the time. Give this baby a custom interface for an in-dash entertainment system and I'm all over it.
I think the terms you are looking for are frontlit and thick. Still, I'm a bit disappointed that the DX is such an ugly stepchild. Certainly there's a market for a reasonably priced larger format e-reader.
I'm thinking about returning my recently acquired kindle gen 4 since I may not get to use it much in the next month, and a built in light is a major feature.
If you think a decent standing height table is expensive, you'll be very disappointed in the price premium for a drafting height chair. I have one (a Steelcase Think), and not only was it expensive, but nobody ever seems to clear them out (like the std height Aerons which were being sold for scrap after the last i-bust)
Put all the lawyers, accountants, and middle managers on it, and it won't matter.
I'm getting worried his old one might be wearing out.
Won't matter. The controls are not in the hardware you print, but in the firmware that makes the printer work. If you can change the firmware, there's no need to make a new printer - just re-write the firmware in the old one.
The prohibition isn't in making the parts, the prohibition is in making it easy to make the parts with low cost hardware.
That's what commas are for. :-P
I'll admit that I know very little of the gun side of the CFR, but I suspect that these guys will find their downfall in the sale of these items. It's one thing to play around with 3D printing, but the temptation (especially for the young entrepreneur) is to start selling to friends. Once those personal hobby items go commercial, that's when you can plan on a ton of bricks for a hat.
I predict that there will be laws (actually, already are) for this, but that as the industry becomes more mature there are going to be soft-safeguards in the commercial printers which actively discourage the fabrication of the most critical gun-like parts (ex: printers will not print cylindroidal parts with inner diameter ranges that match common ammunition).
Have you seen how long it takes for a modern phone to turn on? You may as well leave it home. (I think my iPhone takes several times longer than my desktop to cold boot).
...would only be possible if you were a hermit, living in the basement, and having no contact with society.
All the time we get "Why the hell is this posted on slashdot?" Here, it seems, is an article aimed directly at the core demographic.
The problem isn't the teachers, or the administration, or the "system." It's the parents. YOU are the problem with the schools because you (and I mean the general "you," not necessarily you in particular) expect that the system will provide day care for your kids in the form of all the learning they can every need and you have no responsibility at all for helping, nurturing, teaching, and guiding them.
Yes, there are poor, unmotivated teachers. There are lazy, useless programmers too. A good set of parents can overcome all but the worst teacher. Even the best teacher in the world can't overcome a set of parents who are indifferent to their child's academic growth.
I agree that adding a bunch of time isn't the answer, but it's time to move away from the agrarian schedule we started with into something that fits a 21st century lifestyle.