But of course they do have impact on your life. I assume you have an android phone. Consider the way Android looked before the iphone.
Consider also how in the 1980s they brought the GUI concept our of the xerox labs into the hands of many users. Whatever computer you use, unless you are a command line purist, you have been impacted by this.
Since the Pi products make computing accessible for most everyone, would it be worthwhile to develop an all-in-one PI like the One Laptop Per Child concept?
I much admire the Raspberry Pi project, philosophy and products
With the luxury of perfect hindsight, what would you have done differently if you could go back in time?
When I mentioned health sensors I was thing about non invasive blood glucose and blood oxygen sensors etc -Apple actually hired people with phds in these subjects. Once they get this right for mass production and past regulations, that kind of feature will truly be a killer app.
It would be interesting if they could add a camera for a facetime on the wrist experience, something that seemed utterly SF not that long ago.
But the true killer app for this kind of device will be the eventual addition of more health related sensors. Probably not in this release though.
Actually I find the offensively stupid and distracting clickbait at the bottom of many serious articles more irritating than many ads.
But I am not aware of a clickbait remover.
Does it exist or why not - I cannot be the only one who hates clickbait.
According to the ars article, it looks like the arrested man made millions of dollars in advertising revenue from his site.
It is one thing to engage in filesharing - copyright infringing and all, but in addition he was profiteering big time from his activity. That makes it to me quite different from a legal point of view - he obviously made money from an illegal activity, and I expect that the punishment will be harsher because of it.
For my personal use, I like the Apple Notes app, it is basic but sufficient and most importantly thanks to icloud it syncs my iphone, ipad and mac. Perfect for my personal scribbles.
But professionally i prefer a little paper notebook. Some of my colleagues prefer a note app with pen on an ipad pro though.
It could be an interesting extra chip in a general use computer, where programs could syphon routines to, for example kinds of video/image rendering, parallel-able mathematical operations, image recognition, a 1000 node neural network, etc.
So I do like mechanical watches and have a few of them, some vintage, some recent, none really expensive. I find those small movements utterly charming.
I always wear a watch, for me a phone never replaced it.
Then I received a stainless AW as an xmas gift from my wife and I must say that after initial doubts i found it really useful and pleasant. I currently wear it often during working days and business trips, my mechanicals are mainly worn in weekends now.
Battery life is not really an issue for me, it works all day, and I charge when I sleep.
But the true killer app is only in its infancy: health. A heart beat sensor is the beginning. it is well known that apple hired several people specialising in various other kind of sensors. FDA approval permitting these could be a crucial feature for commercial success since everyone wants to be and stay healthy.
Btw, several sources have estimates of 11-12 million Apple watches sold last year. I would say that is not bad for a new product category. If this is a flop, I wouldn't mind failing with 11 million pieces of anything.
Hi all, your input please on this paragraph in the linked article:
"Soundararajan was drawn to study consecutive primes after hearing a lecture at Stanford by the mathematician Tadashi Tokieda, of the University of Cambridge, in which he mentioned a counterintuitive property of coin-tossing: If Alice tosses a coin until she sees a head followed by a tail, and Bob tosses a coin until he sees two heads in a row, then on average, Alice will require four tosses while Bob will require six tosses (try this at home!), even though head-tail and head-head have an equal chance of appearing after two coin tosses."
This seems wrong to me. Both Alice and Bob have equal chance of rolling a head, hence on average they will need the same number of tries to arrive at a head toss; and since coins dont have memory, the next toss has equal chance of being head or tail. So I do expect the chances of head head and head tail to be the same.
This is how I see it, the statement above came from a mathematician so I am probably making a mistake in my reasoning but I don't see where.
Any input?
My suggestion is not super cheap at $589 yet very satisfying: an Elekit tube amplifier kit. Elekit is a good japanese kit brand and their tube amp kits are very well regarded. In fact a similar quality ready made product would cost a lot more.
Here is the link to the importer in Canada who delivers to the Americas. He supplies the construction manual in English, this is I think not the case if you buy straight from the japanese Elekit website: http://www.vkmusic.ca/TU-879S....
i know people who like their smartwatches. My sister in law is such a practical person. She had a nice dressed watch, style Cartier or so, and now she only wears the apple watch for practicality. She loves the calendar and message warnings on the wrist.
I do prefer a mechanical watch, but I can see her point.
Actually Titanium is an interesting material for watch cases because:
- it is not allergic at all (important for some)
- it has excellent corrosion resistance
- it is lighter than steel which becomes noticeable in a big watch like this
- while it has the above advantages it is not crazily expensive (well of course TH would ask for a bigger upmark)
The only real disadvantage is that it scratches more easily than steel. It is possible that grade 2 is actually an alloy to reduce that surface softness (I am too lazy to google it)
I must say that its classic case makes it look rather nice. Is it better than a stainless steel Apple Watch which is also quite
premium in its finish with innovative straps to boot? Not so sure.
Amusing detail that you can eventually swap (in a service center) the innards to a traditional mechanical watch though the total end price becomes high then.
Perrier is indeed rather expensive, but, I like the taste. The standard one or the subtly lime flavoured one is what I usually drink.
One of my few luxury food interests, and why not - life is to be enjoyed.
I know many not so technically inclined people who don't hate either platform. In general they liked the uncluttered iphone 4(s) experience but then large screens were even more attractive. Those that I know who moved back did it not out of hate for Android, simply they liked the elegant usability of the iphone on a big screen. Also, in general friends did like the quality of the iphone photo camera.
So this is more detail about the people I know; I don't know about others but it is quite obvious in the metro that big 6Plus iphones have snatched back market share from big android phones.
well over here in Asia the last 2 years saw a big flow back. People like their iphone 4 and iphone 4s, but then they liked the big screens of certain new androids more, with the 6 plus I noticed a good number of people switching back.
>> Rolex makes some relatively cheap watches. The ones I've seen in shops (and therefore probably cheaper online) start at around £250. They are, however, monumentally ugly.
I think you must be mistaken. I am not aware of any even old and not fake Rolex in the price range of around £250. They start at a multiple of that.
I know it is not enough to handle all our energy needs but this would be a good step forward, and presumably it would drive down the cost of solar panels.
It is the kind of policy that would truly ve future oriented.
Force Touch could yield to interesting app behaviour.
But I am more interested ln the expected camera improvements. Apple bought a company specialising in a new kind of multi sensor camera thet promises much improved picture quality, more so in low light and it could be used for 3d pictures.
i have the 6 plus which is already capable of surprisingly acceptable pictures, and if the low light quality still improves then the phone could convince me to leave my bigger gear more often at home.
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But of course they do have impact on your life. I assume you have an android phone. Consider the way Android looked before the iphone. Consider also how in the 1980s they brought the GUI concept our of the xerox labs into the hands of many users. Whatever computer you use, unless you are a command line purist, you have been impacted by this.
Since the Pi products make computing accessible for most everyone, would it be worthwhile to develop an all-in-one PI like the One Laptop Per Child concept?
I much admire the Raspberry Pi project, philosophy and products With the luxury of perfect hindsight, what would you have done differently if you could go back in time?
When I mentioned health sensors I was thing about non invasive blood glucose and blood oxygen sensors etc -Apple actually hired people with phds in these subjects. Once they get this right for mass production and past regulations, that kind of feature will truly be a killer app.
It would be interesting if they could add a camera for a facetime on the wrist experience, something that seemed utterly SF not that long ago.
But the true killer app for this kind of device will be the eventual addition of more health related sensors. Probably not in this release though.
Actually I find the offensively stupid and distracting clickbait at the bottom of many serious articles more irritating than many ads.
But I am not aware of a clickbait remover.
Does it exist or why not - I cannot be the only one who hates clickbait.
According to the ars article, it looks like the arrested man made millions of dollars in advertising revenue from his site. It is one thing to engage in filesharing - copyright infringing and all, but in addition he was profiteering big time from his activity. That makes it to me quite different from a legal point of view - he obviously made money from an illegal activity, and I expect that the punishment will be harsher because of it.
For my personal use, I like the Apple Notes app, it is basic but sufficient and most importantly thanks to icloud it syncs my iphone, ipad and mac. Perfect for my personal scribbles.
But professionally i prefer a little paper notebook. Some of my colleagues prefer a note app with pen on an ipad pro though.
It could be an interesting extra chip in a general use computer, where programs could syphon routines to, for example kinds of video/image rendering, parallel-able mathematical operations, image recognition, a 1000 node neural network, etc.
So I do like mechanical watches and have a few of them, some vintage, some recent, none really expensive. I find those small movements utterly charming. I always wear a watch, for me a phone never replaced it.
Then I received a stainless AW as an xmas gift from my wife and I must say that after initial doubts i found it really useful and pleasant. I currently wear it often during working days and business trips, my mechanicals are mainly worn in weekends now.
Battery life is not really an issue for me, it works all day, and I charge when I sleep.
But the true killer app is only in its infancy: health. A heart beat sensor is the beginning. it is well known that apple hired several people specialising in various other kind of sensors. FDA approval permitting these could be a crucial feature for commercial success since everyone wants to be and stay healthy.
Btw, several sources have estimates of 11-12 million Apple watches sold last year. I would say that is not bad for a new product category. If this is a flop, I wouldn't mind failing with 11 million pieces of anything.
yes, I get it completely now. thanks.
Of course. Thanks !
But we should be able to calculate this instead of trying it. So I understand where my error is.
Hi all, your input please on this paragraph in the linked article:
"Soundararajan was drawn to study consecutive primes after hearing a lecture at Stanford by the mathematician Tadashi Tokieda, of the University of Cambridge, in which he mentioned a counterintuitive property of coin-tossing: If Alice tosses a coin until she sees a head followed by a tail, and Bob tosses a coin until he sees two heads in a row, then on average, Alice will require four tosses while Bob will require six tosses (try this at home!), even though head-tail and head-head have an equal chance of appearing after two coin tosses."
This seems wrong to me. Both Alice and Bob have equal chance of rolling a head, hence on average they will need the same number of tries to arrive at a head toss; and since coins dont have memory, the next toss has equal chance of being head or tail. So I do expect the chances of head head and head tail to be the same.
This is how I see it, the statement above came from a mathematician so I am probably making a mistake in my reasoning but I don't see where.
Any input?
My suggestion is not super cheap at $589 yet very satisfying: an Elekit tube amplifier kit. Elekit is a good japanese kit brand and their tube amp kits are very well regarded. In fact a similar quality ready made product would cost a lot more.
Here is the link to the importer in Canada who delivers to the Americas. He supplies the construction manual in English, this is I think not the case if you buy straight from the japanese Elekit website: http://www.vkmusic.ca/TU-879S....
i know people who like their smartwatches. My sister in law is such a practical person. She had a nice dressed watch, style Cartier or so, and now she only wears the apple watch for practicality. She loves the calendar and message warnings on the wrist.
I do prefer a mechanical watch, but I can see her point.
Actually Titanium is an interesting material for watch cases because:
- it is not allergic at all (important for some)
- it has excellent corrosion resistance
- it is lighter than steel which becomes noticeable in a big watch like this
- while it has the above advantages it is not crazily expensive (well of course TH would ask for a bigger upmark)
The only real disadvantage is that it scratches more easily than steel. It is possible that grade 2 is actually an alloy to reduce that surface softness (I am too lazy to google it)
I must say that its classic case makes it look rather nice. Is it better than a stainless steel Apple Watch which is also quite premium in its finish with innovative straps to boot? Not so sure.
Amusing detail that you can eventually swap (in a service center) the innards to a traditional mechanical watch though the total end price becomes high then.
Always the apple fanboys on slashdot!
Perrier is indeed rather expensive, but, I like the taste. The standard one or the subtly lime flavoured one is what I usually drink. One of my few luxury food interests, and why not - life is to be enjoyed.
I know many not so technically inclined people who don't hate either platform. In general they liked the uncluttered iphone 4(s) experience but then large screens were even more attractive. Those that I know who moved back did it not out of hate for Android, simply they liked the elegant usability of the iphone on a big screen. Also, in general friends did like the quality of the iphone photo camera.
So this is more detail about the people I know; I don't know about others but it is quite obvious in the metro that big 6Plus iphones have snatched back market share from big android phones.
well over here in Asia the last 2 years saw a big flow back. People like their iphone 4 and iphone 4s, but then they liked the big screens of certain new androids more, with the 6 plus I noticed a good number of people switching back.
Mmmh as a non American city I would not want my data to be stored on American servers.
>> Rolex makes some relatively cheap watches. The ones I've seen in shops (and therefore probably cheaper online) start at around £250. They are, however, monumentally ugly.
I think you must be mistaken. I am not aware of any even old and not fake Rolex in the price range of around £250. They start at a multiple of that.
I know it is not enough to handle all our energy needs but this would be a good step forward, and presumably it would drive down the cost of solar panels. It is the kind of policy that would truly ve future oriented.
Force Touch could yield to interesting app behaviour.
But I am more interested ln the expected camera improvements. Apple bought a company specialising in a new kind of multi sensor camera thet promises much improved picture quality, more so in low light and it could be used for 3d pictures.
i have the 6 plus which is already capable of surprisingly acceptable pictures, and if the low light quality still improves then the phone could convince me to leave my bigger gear more often at home.