"Wake me up at 7" works fine on my Android.
But yes, Siri is a little bit ahead. However, Apple had 18 months to catch up. I would bet money it won't take Android that long to fill the gaps.
With Android, I think that Tasker married with Google Voice Search would be awesome. You can already do the two things you've mentioned logically using Tasker and Locale without voice. What would remain would be mapping individual contexts and tasks to voice commands. I wonder if the guys who wrote SpeakToIt or VLingo would be interesting in doing something like that, a Voice Tasker.
Mostly what OWS is doing is ensuring that Obama will not serve a second term. Think about it, this looks very much like the seasons leading up to the 1968 election. When people are marching in the streets, the electorate generally loses faith in the top tier. In 1968, things got so bad that Lyndon Johnson just cashed in his chips and moved on. We ended up with Richard Nixon.
OWS' legacy may be the presidential election of Rick Perry.
I wish they'd come up with something that we could rally around and hope to see results from.
But I don't see that. Instead I see signs to "End Capitalism!", I see a will.i.am concert, and I swore I heard someone actually saying that they were there to end poverty. Not that the latter isn't a noble cause but c'mon, isn't that kind of like trying to boil the ocean? Are you really going to stay protesting in that park until poverty is ended? I bet not.
Tell us what your mission is. Tell us what you intend to execute that mission. Tell us how you will measure success.
If your mission is to bring down the heads of the major banks, then say so and say how you intend to do it. The Arab Spring protesters did this to their respective dictators with strikes and by turning the police and the military to their side, and it worked.
It just doesn't seem like this group has the leadership and the cojones to do the same thing. The difference between the Arab Spring and these guys is that the Arab Spring had actual leaders, employed people who knew how to network and lead. This bunch just seems like a bunch of chronically unemployed people looking for a way to pass the time.
Give me a reason to buy into your protest and I'll do it. Same will go for the cops, fireman and city employees around you. But so far, you're just making yourselves a nuisance.
Three words: Nook Color killer. Then, if they're smart, they'll turn a blind eye to the root'n'ROMmers, B&N did, only this is hopefully more capable hardware.
Then to put the icing on the B&N cake, they'll come out with an e-ink touchscreen Kindle and reduce the Kindle 3 down to $99 or $79 with ads.
Win.
Best discussion I ever had on the subject:
Lawyer: OK, we'll fax you the contract, you'll need to sign it and fax it back.
Me: OK, well send it to this phone number. It's not a real fax, it's a number that routes to a website we connect to but it will get the job done.
Lawyer: Yeah, we use the same kind of thing here.
Both: (face palm)
I'm thinking that we'll just have to have a hiring freeze put in place. Don't hire any more carriers. As carriers die off, start merging post offices.
Kill off Wednesday delivery, not Saturday because for some particularly long weekends, Friday-Tuesday is a long wait for important parcels, bills, etc.
PO Boxes or mailboxes in or near the home post office (within some reasonable drive mile limit - 5? 10? 20?) should be free. Home delivery should cost an annual fee if you want it outside this range. You want to live in NowherePodunk, USA far away from any central location? Great, pay for it.
Come up with a new revenue stream - how about certified e-mail address? The USPS already does a fair amount of business processing passports, why not provide, for an extra fee a CA certified.us e-mail system as well? Users who send/receive email through this should only be known, certified users. Make it a closed system specifically for instances where certification of sender and receiver are needed.
The possibility of the "cried wolf" situation is very remote. Take that versus the real likelihood that had people not evacuated in large numbers, we may have seen a larger loss of life. I think the governors, mayors, and county officials did the right thing. I hear a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking from people who have never been in charge of the safety of millions.
That's not going to happen here. Enough people had to be bailed out of their houses, lost power and mass transit, or their lives that they're not going to ignore warnings of the same type of hurricane or worse.
Given the choice of being overprepared or underprepared, I think they erred in exactly the right direction.
The not-so-bad-storm has produced record flooding in many places.
I don't think the evacuations did any harm and in the case of the mass transit system, it probably saved a lot of mini-Katrina like situations happening as there were flooded tracks, downed utility poles, mudslides, and trees on virtually every rail system in New York. Had people been on trains, they might still be there as much of that is still shut down.
I don't recall anyone saying anything about a Category 3 except for Fox News who kept showing footage from the Category 3 1938 "Long Island Express" storm claiming it was going to be "just like that". Idiots. All the local news I was following (CBS 880 mostly) reiterated over and over again that the trouble was going to be the 5-10 inches of rain, not the wind. In most places like low lying Hoboken, New Milford, Wayne, NJ, Elmsford, Mamaroneck, NY, the evacuations were dead on necessary as that indeed was the case. Even in the higher elevations in Staten Island, NY, people had to be evacuated because ponds that had never, ever had a history of flooding did so.
Was it hyped? Maybe. So what? With a storm the size of Western Europe, only 21 deaths? That's a pretty good line of success for managing what could have been a lot worse.
You can upload your contacts if you want but you do not have to.
You can also link to other email accounts for your contacts as well.
But yes, the best and smoothest experience is through you Google account.
Facebook has already shown that they are not above paying for anti-Google stories. It's not a stretch that they've joined forces with Microsoft and Apple here.
Just makes me want to avoid all three of them.
Facebook's UI does not make that function very discoverable. It's a hassle, so most people don't even bother to use it.
The UI is much, much friendlier in Plus.
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No. We don't.
"Wake me up at 7" works fine on my Android. But yes, Siri is a little bit ahead. However, Apple had 18 months to catch up. I would bet money it won't take Android that long to fill the gaps.
With Android, I think that Tasker married with Google Voice Search would be awesome. You can already do the two things you've mentioned logically using Tasker and Locale without voice. What would remain would be mapping individual contexts and tasks to voice commands. I wonder if the guys who wrote SpeakToIt or VLingo would be interesting in doing something like that, a Voice Tasker.
Sorry, forgot this one too. It's made to record inside automobile footage but there's no reason you can't use it for anything else.
Like this one? or this one or even this one if you set it up to auto-upload.
Mostly what OWS is doing is ensuring that Obama will not serve a second term. Think about it, this looks very much like the seasons leading up to the 1968 election. When people are marching in the streets, the electorate generally loses faith in the top tier. In 1968, things got so bad that Lyndon Johnson just cashed in his chips and moved on. We ended up with Richard Nixon. OWS' legacy may be the presidential election of Rick Perry.
I wonder how many of those 99% posted heartfelt tributes to Steve Jobs?
I wish they'd come up with something that we could rally around and hope to see results from. But I don't see that. Instead I see signs to "End Capitalism!", I see a will.i.am concert, and I swore I heard someone actually saying that they were there to end poverty. Not that the latter isn't a noble cause but c'mon, isn't that kind of like trying to boil the ocean? Are you really going to stay protesting in that park until poverty is ended? I bet not. Tell us what your mission is. Tell us what you intend to execute that mission. Tell us how you will measure success. If your mission is to bring down the heads of the major banks, then say so and say how you intend to do it. The Arab Spring protesters did this to their respective dictators with strikes and by turning the police and the military to their side, and it worked. It just doesn't seem like this group has the leadership and the cojones to do the same thing. The difference between the Arab Spring and these guys is that the Arab Spring had actual leaders, employed people who knew how to network and lead. This bunch just seems like a bunch of chronically unemployed people looking for a way to pass the time. Give me a reason to buy into your protest and I'll do it. Same will go for the cops, fireman and city employees around you. But so far, you're just making yourselves a nuisance.
Three words: Nook Color killer. Then, if they're smart, they'll turn a blind eye to the root'n'ROMmers, B&N did, only this is hopefully more capable hardware. Then to put the icing on the B&N cake, they'll come out with an e-ink touchscreen Kindle and reduce the Kindle 3 down to $99 or $79 with ads. Win.
Best discussion I ever had on the subject: Lawyer: OK, we'll fax you the contract, you'll need to sign it and fax it back. Me: OK, well send it to this phone number. It's not a real fax, it's a number that routes to a website we connect to but it will get the job done. Lawyer: Yeah, we use the same kind of thing here. Both: (face palm)
I'm thinking that we'll just have to have a hiring freeze put in place. Don't hire any more carriers. As carriers die off, start merging post offices. Kill off Wednesday delivery, not Saturday because for some particularly long weekends, Friday-Tuesday is a long wait for important parcels, bills, etc. PO Boxes or mailboxes in or near the home post office (within some reasonable drive mile limit - 5? 10? 20?) should be free. Home delivery should cost an annual fee if you want it outside this range. You want to live in NowherePodunk, USA far away from any central location? Great, pay for it. Come up with a new revenue stream - how about certified e-mail address? The USPS already does a fair amount of business processing passports, why not provide, for an extra fee a CA certified .us e-mail system as well? Users who send/receive email through this should only be known, certified users. Make it a closed system specifically for instances where certification of sender and receiver are needed.
The possibility of the "cried wolf" situation is very remote. Take that versus the real likelihood that had people not evacuated in large numbers, we may have seen a larger loss of life. I think the governors, mayors, and county officials did the right thing. I hear a lot of Monday morning quarterbacking from people who have never been in charge of the safety of millions.
Yes, and yet people were whining about the trains being shut down. They considered that part of the overreaction.
That's not going to happen here. Enough people had to be bailed out of their houses, lost power and mass transit, or their lives that they're not going to ignore warnings of the same type of hurricane or worse. Given the choice of being overprepared or underprepared, I think they erred in exactly the right direction.
The not-so-bad-storm has produced record flooding in many places. I don't think the evacuations did any harm and in the case of the mass transit system, it probably saved a lot of mini-Katrina like situations happening as there were flooded tracks, downed utility poles, mudslides, and trees on virtually every rail system in New York. Had people been on trains, they might still be there as much of that is still shut down. I don't recall anyone saying anything about a Category 3 except for Fox News who kept showing footage from the Category 3 1938 "Long Island Express" storm claiming it was going to be "just like that". Idiots. All the local news I was following (CBS 880 mostly) reiterated over and over again that the trouble was going to be the 5-10 inches of rain, not the wind. In most places like low lying Hoboken, New Milford, Wayne, NJ, Elmsford, Mamaroneck, NY, the evacuations were dead on necessary as that indeed was the case. Even in the higher elevations in Staten Island, NY, people had to be evacuated because ponds that had never, ever had a history of flooding did so. Was it hyped? Maybe. So what? With a storm the size of Western Europe, only 21 deaths? That's a pretty good line of success for managing what could have been a lot worse.
From Apple propaganda.
You can upload your contacts if you want but you do not have to. You can also link to other email accounts for your contacts as well. But yes, the best and smoothest experience is through you Google account.
I hadn't heard that they had extracted the rights for CyanogenMod along with him. I wouldn't assume that was part of the deal.
For what it's worth, I get a whole lot less FC's on my Cyanogen Droid Incredible than I did with the stock ROM. She might just not notice.
Facebook has already shown that they are not above paying for anti-Google stories. It's not a stretch that they've joined forces with Microsoft and Apple here. Just makes me want to avoid all three of them.
Not to mention tossing out the electoral system and maybe allowing us to vote directly for our presidents as a democracy would allow.
Facebook's UI does not make that function very discoverable. It's a hassle, so most people don't even bother to use it. The UI is much, much friendlier in Plus.
If Google wants to stop incorrect rumors from spreading, it ought to open up the friggin' beta already.
He's also had a huge hard-on for IBM for a long time. I think he's predicted IBM's demise about 10 times in the past 10 years.
Alas, where is Bell Labs today? They're a shadow of their former selves at Alcatel-Lucent. But in their day, they were the US' premier research lab.