I've been wanting to write a direct sync between my SE phone and google calendar for a while now, but never found the time for more than geting "hello world" to work on my phone.
It should be entirely possible to write a small java (j2me) program that directly accesses the internal calendar on the phone, and talks directly to the external gcal API over gprs or whatever.
No Outlook, no PC, just sync up directly and wirelessly, whenever and wherever. Do drop me a line if anyone decides to make something like this.
I think it's because Americans seem to be pretty happy with voice messages and have been used to them for a long time. Over here they never really caught on and are generally considered a nuisance.
I hate it when people always dismiss things like this as paid for by Microsoft. That guy could very well just be a genuine idiot, and yet you're trying to insult him by saying he's corrupt as well.
But on a serious note: There is also the possibility that he is neither, only doing his job (although in a slightly weasly way).
"Follow the money" is a useful game, but don't just pick an obvious trail and ignore all others. Seeing as they have an IT minister at all, they obviously value the sector as a strategically important industry. Since they do not have the important software houses and those are unlikely to pop up overnight, it would be natural for them, at this stage, to focus on growing the industry by means of code shops for foreign publishers to outsource to, just like India. Encouraging use of commercial software is simply a bid to preserve or expand his market. The statements about open source are silly, sure, and sneaky. Some might say immoral. But no more so than what just about every CEO and governing politician in the world does on a daily basis to protect the interests he is entrusted with.
Could it be because that temperatures were being measured where people were, rather than where people were not?
It could have been if we knew nothing about how the measurements were done, but if you had checked you would have found out that was not. Meteorological stations well outside dense populations (of which there are and have been many) show the same trend.
You've been had by big oil. It hurts to admit, sure, but hye: it's human to make mistakes. Time to get over it and move on.
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The "darkness" of the dark ages is severely exaggerated. True, the loss central power resulted in a lot of warring that had previously been confined to the outer frontiers of the empire, but most of the other "bad things" about it were equally present in roman society. The roman empire was not as enlightened and civilized a time as many seem to think. Their great strength was in military strategy and administration, but there was very little technological and philosophical progress (compared to its duration) from what the greeks already had. In fact the middle ages were much more productive in that department.
If you know how to use coin flips to arrive at a correct diagnosis from arbitrary symptoms with a success rate of 50%, you should start getting ready for a trip to Stockholm.
What is interesting to me is that a party that includes some pretty intelligent people seems to primarily target idiots in their rhetoric.
Well, the idiots are in the majority out there (not only in the US), so it's mostly a question of what other motifs might dampen your inclination to exploit that.
In 2000, the Democrats said that the Republicans stole the election because of the confusing butterfly ballots and that we needed a new and modern way of voting. Now that we have it,
Yup, just that like that guest I served in the restaurant yesterday. He complain there was no sauce on the steak, so I took it back and gave him a new one with sauce but this time no fries. But guess what: he still complained. Sheesh, there's no pleasing some people.
Look, everyone agrees the old system was hopeless. Does that mean we have to accept whatever crap we are offered as a replacement? The main complaint with the voting machines is really very simple: the results are unverifiable. Even if no other actual problems were found (although they have), this really should disqualified the Diebold machines. It is a very simple point, very easy to understand, and very easy to understand the importance of. If you don't get this, you are not smart enough to vote.
The fix is well known: keep a paper trail. Now here's the hard part: That does not mean a return to badly designed paper based mechanical voting. Got that? Yes, I know the word "paper" is involved in both but don't be fooled by that. Really: they are still not the same thing, and they do not share the same problems. Trust me on this, or better still, just think it over for two seconds.
So the only question left is why would anyone oppose the fix, except if they stand to gain from errors and/or manipulation that the fix would prevent?
But overall I think we come ahead in quality of life (even if we pay close to 50% income tax).
You seem to imply there is some sort of conflict there. This is an illusion. Firstly, there is actually some truth to the old chestnut about money not making you happy, although everyone seems to treat it as just something we tell kids along with Santa Claus and the tooth fairy these days. But to be more precise: Not being poor will improve your happiness, but hoarding cash will not. What will help everyone, and especially those in the lower income range, is of course good, free services. It will also make it easier for them to get out of that position. Contrary to to common belief, most of the help-receivers do want to get out into productive work, and it is a ridiculous waste of resources to not help them realize that.
As long as you have enough for decent shelter and clothes, healthy food of the cheap kind, and a little headroom for indulgence, you don't really need much more to have a good quality of life if the essential services are free. So paying your taxes doesn't really hurt (I live in one of those places. People absolutely love to bitch about the state robbing them blind, but they also seem to be getting along quite nicely, and they complain even more if some of the public services are not up to scratch). Sure, it should be possible to gain something from hard work, to keep people motivated, but I simply don't buy the idea that the reward has to be being a 100000 times richer than your neighbor rather than just 10-100 times for that idea to work.
The US system is constructed to maximize differences, rather than raise the floor. Now, if you are one of those fascist bastards who believe the strong man is entitled to anything he can grab, and fuck the rest, then fine. I have some major moral disagreements with you and believe you are a threat to the entire human race, but at least you have a consistent world view. But you middle-of-the road right-oriented guys who claim maximum capitalism and minimum regulation actually provides the best life for the average guy: really, get a grip. Why not go all the way and just claim Santa will fix everything.
But more importantly than any of this, to those of you in the US: make sure that in the future you will still have the opportunity to choose how you are governed, whether you are on the right or left, or are aver likely to change your mind: your current leaders are eroding those rights; don't let them get away with it. In the American version of democracy, like in many places, voters have little direct influence on federal policy. But you do still have the last, the most central and most important democratic right: to kick out your leaders when they fuck up. Use it while you still have it, or it might be too late.
I have now. Damn, that's pretty. I think I forgot about there being 2 links in the GP after visiting the first one. If scrybe will sync with my phone, count me in.
I'm sure it has some nice advanced functions, but it doesn't seem to have my preferred view (column-based week view) easily available, and it doesn't let me drag events around. It's these little "polished" things that I like so much about he best google apps.
AOL. And if someone sees a more usable online calendar than Google's, let me know. Sure, they have a few duds too (Google talk isn't going to take over the world anytime soon), but generalizing like that is really unwarranted. I'm as worried about Google's extensive knowledge of its users as the next guy, but they really do have a knack for buying out the best-of-class web apps in the ease-of-use for common tasks end of the market (rather than complex, professional functionality), and even developing a couple themselves as well.
As if mouse use wasn't straining enough when it doesn't matter where your cursor is most of the time. I predict that such interfaces would increase the incidence of RSI, carpal tunnel syndrome, and general tension.
They have never given a damn about the actual war, only about its effects on their own power. If they can get those without actually fighting the bloody expensive thing, and without risking bad news being reported back, why not just make people believe they are fighting it, and winning? All you need is a "great firewall of the US". It will not be visible from the moon. Not on the pictures americans will see, anyway.
is it Hollywood's worst nightmare? More importantly, can 'open-source films' develop into a sustainable financial model?"
is it audiences' worst nightmare? Can 'open-source films' develop into anything watchable?
I guess it might, but only because individuals with a vision are allowed to mess with the material afterwards and do it again, properly. Of course by then the title will be tainted and noone will discover someone managed to make something good out of the turkey.
That's what the Xerox Execs said about computers moving to color.
Really? That it would be more difficult?
I think 3D is coming, but gradually, partially, and with more subtle mappings than older VR efforts have imagined. Console games are on the right track with 3D interfaces that more-or-less normal people can actually use.
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I've been wanting to write a direct sync between my SE phone and google calendar for a while now, but never found the time for more than geting "hello world" to work on my phone.
It should be entirely possible to write a small java (j2me) program that directly accesses the internal calendar on the phone, and talks directly to the external gcal API over gprs or whatever.
No Outlook, no PC, just sync up directly and wirelessly, whenever and wherever. Do drop me a line if anyone decides to make something like this.
I think it's because Americans seem to be pretty happy with voice messages and have been used to them for a long time. Over here they never really caught on and are generally considered a nuisance.
I hate it when people always dismiss things like this as paid for by Microsoft. That guy could very well just be a genuine idiot, and yet you're trying to insult him by saying he's corrupt as well.
But on a serious note: There is also the possibility that he is neither, only doing his job (although in a slightly weasly way).
"Follow the money" is a useful game, but don't just pick an obvious trail and ignore all others. Seeing as they have an IT minister at all, they obviously value the sector as a strategically important industry. Since they do not have the important software houses and those are unlikely to pop up overnight, it would be natural for them, at this stage, to focus on growing the industry by means of code shops for foreign publishers to outsource to, just like India. Encouraging use of commercial software is simply a bid to preserve or expand his market. The statements about open source are silly, sure, and sneaky. Some might say immoral. But no more so than what just about every CEO and governing politician in the world does on a daily basis to protect the interests he is entrusted with.
Could it be because that temperatures were being measured where people were, rather than where people were not?
It could have been if we knew nothing about how the measurements were done, but if you had checked you would have found out that was not. Meteorological stations well outside dense populations (of which there are and have been many) show the same trend.
You've been had by big oil. It hurts to admit, sure, but hye: it's human to make mistakes. Time to get over it and move on.
"Exterminate" comes to mind...
The "darkness" of the dark ages is severely exaggerated. True, the loss central power resulted in a lot of warring that had previously been confined to the outer frontiers of the empire, but most of the other "bad things" about it were equally present in roman society. The roman empire was not as enlightened and civilized a time as many seem to think. Their great strength was in military strategy and administration, but there was very little technological and philosophical progress (compared to its duration) from what the greeks already had. In fact the middle ages were much more productive in that department.
But but where's the Firearms and Role Playing Game manual?
If you know how to use coin flips to arrive at a correct diagnosis from arbitrary symptoms with a success rate of 50%, you should start getting ready for a trip to Stockholm.
No, no, no, dig up stupid.
Can't. You need one of those builder guys with lots of great big slabs on their back to build a stair up.
What is interesting to me is that a party that includes some pretty intelligent people seems to primarily target idiots in their rhetoric.
Well, the idiots are in the majority out there (not only in the US), so it's mostly a question of what other motifs might dampen your inclination to exploit that.
In 2000, the Democrats said that the Republicans stole the election because of the confusing butterfly ballots and that we needed a new and modern way of voting. Now that we have it,
Yup, just that like that guest I served in the restaurant yesterday. He complain there was no sauce on the steak, so I took it back and gave him a new one with sauce but this time no fries. But guess what: he still complained. Sheesh, there's no pleasing some people.
Look, everyone agrees the old system was hopeless. Does that mean we have to accept whatever crap we are offered as a replacement? The main complaint with the voting machines is really very simple: the results are unverifiable. Even if no other actual problems were found (although they have), this really should disqualified the Diebold machines. It is a very simple point, very easy to understand, and very easy to understand the importance of. If you don't get this, you are not smart enough to vote.
The fix is well known: keep a paper trail. Now here's the hard part: That does not mean a return to badly designed paper based mechanical voting. Got that? Yes, I know the word "paper" is involved in both but don't be fooled by that. Really: they are still not the same thing, and they do not share the same problems. Trust me on this, or better still, just think it over for two seconds.
So the only question left is why would anyone oppose the fix, except if they stand to gain from errors and/or manipulation that the fix would prevent?
But overall I think we come ahead in quality of life (even if we pay close to 50% income tax).
You seem to imply there is some sort of conflict there. This is an illusion. Firstly, there is actually some truth to the old chestnut about money not making you happy, although everyone seems to treat it as just something we tell kids along with Santa Claus and the tooth fairy these days. But to be more precise: Not being poor will improve your happiness, but hoarding cash will not. What will help everyone, and especially those in the lower income range, is of course good, free services. It will also make it easier for them to get out of that position. Contrary to to common belief, most of the help-receivers do want to get out into productive work, and it is a ridiculous waste of resources to not help them realize that.
As long as you have enough for decent shelter and clothes, healthy food of the cheap kind, and a little headroom for indulgence, you don't really need much more to have a good quality of life if the essential services are free. So paying your taxes doesn't really hurt (I live in one of those places. People absolutely love to bitch about the state robbing them blind, but they also seem to be getting along quite nicely, and they complain even more if some of the public services are not up to scratch). Sure, it should be possible to gain something from hard work, to keep people motivated, but I simply don't buy the idea that the reward has to be being a 100000 times richer than your neighbor rather than just 10-100 times for that idea to work.
The US system is constructed to maximize differences, rather than raise the floor. Now, if you are one of those fascist bastards who believe the strong man is entitled to anything he can grab, and fuck the rest, then fine. I have some major moral disagreements with you and believe you are a threat to the entire human race, but at least you have a consistent world view. But you middle-of-the road right-oriented guys who claim maximum capitalism and minimum regulation actually
provides the best life for the average guy: really, get a grip. Why not go all the way and just claim Santa will fix everything.
But more importantly than any of this, to those of you in the US: make sure that in the future you will still have the opportunity to choose how you are governed, whether you are on the right or left, or are aver likely to change your mind: your current leaders are eroding those rights; don't let them get away with it. In the American version of democracy, like in many places, voters have little direct influence on federal policy. But you do still have the last, the most central and most important democratic right: to kick out your leaders when they fuck up. Use it while you still have it, or it might be too late.
Did you by chance watch the demo video of it?
I have now. Damn, that's pretty. I think I forgot about there being 2 links in the GP after visiting the first one. If scrybe will sync with my phone, count me in.
Millimeters are also quite popular in some circles. At least if there's nine of them.
I'm sure it has some nice advanced functions, but it doesn't seem to have my preferred view (column-based week view) easily available, and it doesn't let me drag events around. It's these little "polished" things that I like so much about he best google apps.
AOL. And if someone sees a more usable online calendar than Google's, let me know. Sure, they have a few duds too (Google talk isn't going to take over the world anytime soon), but generalizing like that is really unwarranted. I'm as worried about Google's extensive knowledge of its users as the next guy, but they really do have a knack for buying out the best-of-class web apps in the ease-of-use for common tasks end of the market (rather than complex, professional functionality), and even developing a couple themselves as well.
As if mouse use wasn't straining enough when it doesn't matter where your cursor is most of the time. I predict that such interfaces would increase the incidence of RSI, carpal tunnel syndrome, and general tension.
Ah, that was just a conscious government maneuver to make everyone see it as an laughable and frivolous idea :-P
Who gives a damn about winning the bloody war
They have never given a damn about the actual war, only about its effects on their own power. If they can get those without actually fighting the bloody expensive thing, and without risking bad news being reported back, why not just make people believe they are fighting it, and winning? All you need is a "great firewall of the US". It will not be visible from the moon. Not on the pictures americans will see, anyway.
Imagine a beowulf cluster of those.
is it Hollywood's worst nightmare? More importantly, can 'open-source films' develop into a sustainable financial model?"
is it audiences' worst nightmare? Can 'open-source films' develop into anything watchable?
I guess it might, but only because individuals with a vision are allowed to mess with the material afterwards and do it again, properly. Of course by then the title will be tainted and noone will discover someone managed to make something good out of the turkey.
That's probably just an effect. The cause of the cure is of course the power of massive amounts of caffeine.
That's what the Xerox Execs said about computers moving to color.
Really? That it would be more difficult?
I think 3D is coming, but gradually, partially, and with more subtle mappings than older VR efforts have imagined. Console games are on the right track with 3D interfaces that more-or-less normal people can actually use.
Since when is suspending habeas corpus something new,
Doesn't have to be new to be bad.
Theo van Gogh was also offered police protection.