I have a lot of friends who proudly contribute to google maps. Whenever I try push them towards OSM, the response is. Its not good enough. roads are missing. POIs are less. Its like a big whoosh. OSM is user generated. More users will mean better maps. Looks at Europe. We did a trip in norway, and we could navigate perfectly just with OSM. Why? Because of local participation. Secondly, we have lost a lot of battles. Today facebook decides what content to show. Want your status update to be seen? Well pay money. The corporations have one agenda. Gamify and monetize. We need to get out and reclaim whatever we can. And OSM is just one of the pieces of the puzzle. If more and more people started contributing, there is no reason for OSM to be inferior. For example, the Indian city of Chennai is as well mapped as google. More users means more developers come and develop better routing algorithms. Better POI searches. Better map features. So if you don't like OSM in your area, Fix it. Its not too difficult. To get something, if you expect some corporation to come and do it for you, remember they will do it in a way it benefits them. To get what you want, you have to make an effort.
Can you let me know of some sites where I can host my videos for free, and also earn a share of the advertising? Youtube is more or less the only option.
I make time lapse videos as a hobby, and I spend hours searching for CC licensed music. After finding such music, I go through the license type to make sure I am not using the music in a way it was not intended to. Yet, anybody can file a claim. Remember that fiasco about the video that had no music, just some background of birds chirping? http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120227/00152917884/
It was so ridiculous that everybody from slashdot to tech portals picked it up, and the guy won. However, what about countless others who are impacted every day.
Search google and stories are literally unlimited. Its a sad state of affairs, with everything heavily stacked in favour of those who can afford an expensive lawyer.
I used background music from ccmixer Gave the full attribution too!
Music : Improvisation On Sunday, by Alex Beroza(http://ccmixter.org/files/AlexBeroza/...) Uses : http://ccmixter.org/files/The3amAssoc... again under the following license.
And got a notice that it matches. I filed a dispute, and haven't heard from them again, and my video is up and running. However, if they had filed a counter claim, they would have taken it down? My account gets a copyright strike? I dunno
anyways, I notified the actual music composer about the claim, and maybe he is also trying to get it removed from their DB.
But its scary, if somebody puts a takedown notice, I cannot seek recourse. I am not in the USA and that makes it even more difficult.
This is exciting. Really exciting. First the successful moon mission and now this. However, from a ISRO's standpoint, this is more significant from another angle too. With such low cost, now others are looking at India as a satellite launch country. Even before, those who wanted satellite launches, often came to ISRO if cost was an issue. But success rate was not too good. With this mission reaching this stage, ISRO has shown that it can launch any type of satellite. From satellite launch perspective, this is a complete success. No doubt about it. All these dollars invested will come back over the next few years, as more and more companies gain more trust in ISRO launch capabilities. I won't be surprised if ISRO recovers all the costs of this mission from commercial launches within the next 5 years.
I was looking at the tech specs. Sensors are very important to me(eg Pressure, magnetic etc.,) So I went through the list on the tech specs page, and apart from the regular proximity and stuff, there is a Hall Effect sensor too. Haven't seen it in the high end Note 2 also, or maybe Samsung calls it by a different name. I know what is a Hall effect sensor, however, I am wondering what will it be used for here? Will it be used for whether a flip cover is open or not? For that I think you can use the light sensor too. Answers please?
Indian premium brands like Taj Mahal are excellent for black tea too. In India, few people use flavoured tea. However, they do flavor their tea. If you want a lemony flavor - Just add a few drops of lemon juice(Fresh squeezed) If you want aroma - Cardamon If you want Spice - Cinnamon
Flavoring tea like this has better results than pre flavored tea. When you refer to Earl grey and such , I figure you are buying Twinnings?
Brewing tea is quite easy. Go to an Indian store and buy a 1kg pack. We get 1KG pack for your 300 INR in India for excellent tea. Thats less than 5$. With markup and all 1KG tea of good quality(eg. Taj Mahal) should be around 10-20$ in Indian stores in any big city. That 1KG pack will brew around 500 150ml cups of tea for you. Add milk and sugar to taste.
Here is the recipe. Remember this is how tea is made in India, which is kind of like the home of Tea. British just borrowed it and consider those silly tea bags as tea.
Lets say you want to make 300ml of tea(2 cups)
Take 300ml water. Add sugar to taste. If you have a sweet tooth you would need around 4 teaspoons, otherwise most people do fine with 1 teaspoon each or 2 for 300ml. Use cane sugar.
Start boiling the water, and as you start seeing the steam coming, put in the tea leaves. Add 1.5 tea spoons This figure is relative. Some like tea bitter, so you would need 2 tea spoons
Keep boiling the water with tea leaves. Once it starts boiling, i.e reaches around 100 degree C(violent water) keep boiling it for 1 minute or so. By the end of a minute or so you would have 250ml water left. Add 50ml milk. Or add 70ml if you want it whiter.
Bring it to a boil(the mixture would start rising) and turn off the gas, and cover it for couple of minutes, sitting there. Now pour the mixture from a sieve and throw away the spend leaves.
Drink and enjoy. Not expensive.
Some further tips. If you like a strong spicy flavor, add 1/4th teaspoon of cinnamon powder along with tea leaves. If you like to have gingery flavor(excellent sore through remedy), put around 1 table spoon of crushed fresh ginger If you like aromatic, add 3 small crushed cardamom cloves((a pack of 100 cloves costs around 3-4$ at Indian stores.
Some links Tea -> http://shop.khanapakana.com/brooke-bond-taj-mahal-tea-15-8-oz-450-grams/ 6$ for half kg. you may find cheaper Cardamon pods -> http://nhastore.com/Cardamon-Pods-Whole-Green-1-Pound-Bulk--P884492.aspx?utm_source=google&utm_medium=Product_Search&utm_campaign=google_base
Remember one cup tea needs 1 clove of cardamom so even a 30$/1lb pack will last you for 500 cups or so or even more. If you ever make a vacation to India, buy 5kg tea and store in air tight container(it will not spoil). Will cost 15$ or so. Cardamom will be 5-6$ for 1kg pack.
Once again, lemme tell you, british do not know tea. That is not tea. When british first discovered tea, they used to bew tea, throw away the water and eat the bitter spent leaves, and then complain that Indians eat such vile stuff Tea has to be brewed, and the first 10-15 cups will not taste very good. Slowly you will realize how much milk, or how much sugar, or how much tea leaves you need to add.
Watch some Indian youtube videos for tea making. You will find some where 300ml water + 70ml milk and mixed and then boiled. After the boil the burner is kept on slow and tea leaves are added which are then brewed on slow flame for 5 minutes.; These are all variations. Experiment, and you will find what you really want. And its a cheap cheap way to prepare tea.
In India we often make 10 cups, keep in a thermos, and for the next 5 hours we can keep microwaving and having. However after 4-5 hours, the taste starts going bad.
That its not really a smartphone. I use android, and recently, aquired a lumia 520 running the latest windows OS. Basic things like file rename, send file as attachment in an email is not possible. If you use an app to open a file from web, if you delete that app, all files related to that app go away. So its kind of like a featurephone. With here maps, its wonderful for the 520. You get an amazing GPS featurephone with great touch etc., However, as you spend more, you can get a smartphone so high end win os phones will never fly off the shelves.
posters here, are a fanboi. And I am not going to give you any counter argument, because any counter argument to fanboi's is useless. As for me, I believe the best OS is the one which makes you productive. If there was one best OS, we would all use that one best OS. So different folks, different strokes, but fanbois do not understand such simple logic.
The major experience of a touch phone is the sensitity of touch. I have handled multiple phones running same version of android, with different touch sensitivity. 520 uses the "super touch or something" which allows it to be used with gloves, hence the extra sensitive touch. This is why we did not get the 620 even though its only slightly more expensive!
I use a Note 2, and have a Lumia 520 in the family. The thing which shone about the 520 is that, at the low price point, the touch and feel experience of the phone was simple marvellous. Nokia makes brilliant stuff. All they needed was a better OS. A Nokia phone with Android OS would have been the killer. Nokia still has a lot of goodwill, esp outside USA, and when you say Nokia people still Gush, and are willing to sacrifice on the OS front for the hardware. Now with M$, that is gone. I expect sales to go down due to two reasons 1. Nokia is gone. The name is gone. Its M$ now 2. The groups will be managed by Microsoft, and we all know how M$ has fared in hardware device management.
Most android phones I have used have an option(unchecked by default) which says download updates only on WIFI. So unless you went to the settings and enabled that, you won't download a software update over 3G or whatever
The period from 1950s to the 1980s was the age of invention. People haven gotten stupider since then. They have wisened up. Why spend hard work on invention when you can buy a patent. And these smart people have created an ecosystem which nurtures MBA, Law and other non contributing disciplines. Its the culture of "Manage" rather than do. And when everybody just goes ahead and wants a pie from the big machine, what happens, slowly but steadily, invention, innovation starts dying. Over every invention lies the sword of patent. Invent a new touch screen? Give it to XYZ for free because you are stepping on some tiny patent somewhere. And this will continue. Very soon the engineers will vanish, and the world will be doomed, as deserved.
Looks like they haven't learnt from the Korean debacle. Korean govt started this thing for traffic offenses (South Korea). There was a monetary benefit too attached. Soon there were people, who deliberately slowed down while crossing on green, so their hiding snapper friend would click pictures of motorists caught unawares. Soon this developed to a stage that motorists beat up a few people., and it also resulted in streetfights. Needless to say, it was abandoned. Now of course, there is no monetary benefit here, but you will have a small percentage who would be misguided into thinking that its their patriotic duty. There will also be a small percentage of malicious people who want to get even with their "weird" neighbor. Then there would be some douchebags who will think its a nice prank to have a swat team in their neighborhood. So its going to be a party now
Well said Most people forget what happened in India in the early days of an indian auction site(similar to ebay, later sold to ebay). Somebody sold a porn cd of a schoolgirl through the auction site. When the ceo from usa was visiting India, the police arrested the ceo.
In developing countries like India, a lot of people die much earlier due to lack of healthcare. Diseases like malaria, dengue, JE etc., are very common. Parasitic infections are also high on body count. Many for the want of cheap medicine which the developed world can take for granted.
This is the BS line pharma companies would like to feed you. Much of the research happens in conjunction with universities. Pharma companies are always in for a "maintenance" cure. They do not want the permanent cure. Corporations exist for profit, and if they get less profit, it will mean a 50,000$ car instead of a 1000000$ supercar. But just like the MAFIAA they would like you to believe that they are some kind of angels looking over starving millions.
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I have a lot of friends who proudly contribute to google maps. Whenever I try push them towards OSM, the response is. Its not good enough. roads are missing. POIs are less.
Its like a big whoosh.
OSM is user generated. More users will mean better maps. Looks at Europe. We did a trip in norway, and we could navigate perfectly just with OSM. Why? Because of local participation.
Secondly, we have lost a lot of battles. Today facebook decides what content to show. Want your status update to be seen? Well pay money. The corporations have one agenda. Gamify and monetize. We need to get out and reclaim whatever we can.
And OSM is just one of the pieces of the puzzle. If more and more people started contributing, there is no reason for OSM to be inferior. For example, the Indian city of Chennai is as well mapped as google.
More users means more developers come and develop better routing algorithms. Better POI searches. Better map features.
So if you don't like OSM in your area, Fix it. Its not too difficult. To get something, if you expect some corporation to come and do it for you, remember they will do it in a way it benefits them. To get what you want, you have to make an effort.
Smart toilet paper role......
Can you let me know of some sites where I can host my videos for free, and also earn a share of the advertising?
Youtube is more or less the only option.
I make time lapse videos as a hobby, and I spend hours searching for CC licensed music. After finding such music, I go through the license type to make sure I am not using the music in a way it was not intended to.
Yet, anybody can file a claim.
Remember that fiasco about the video that had no music, just some background of birds chirping?
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120227/00152917884/
It was so ridiculous that everybody from slashdot to tech portals picked it up, and the guy won. However, what about countless others who are impacted every day.
Here see, they take down classical public domain music
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110421/10280813987/uk-music-publishers-issue-dmca-takedown-public-domain-sheet-music.shtml
Search google and stories are literally unlimited. Its a sad state of affairs, with everything heavily stacked in favour of those who can afford an expensive lawyer.
I made a time lapse video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVbBfUWq3mU
I used background music from ccmixer
Gave the full attribution too!
Music : Improvisation On Sunday, by Alex Beroza(http://ccmixter.org/files/AlexBeroza/...)
Uses : http://ccmixter.org/files/The3amAssoc... again under the following license.
And got a notice that it matches. I filed a dispute, and haven't heard from them again, and my video is up and running. However, if they had filed a counter claim, they would have taken it down? My account gets a copyright strike? I dunno
anyways, I notified the actual music composer about the claim, and maybe he is also trying to get it removed from their DB.
But its scary, if somebody puts a takedown notice, I cannot seek recourse. I am not in the USA and that makes it even more difficult.
This is exciting. Really exciting. First the successful moon mission and now this.
However, from a ISRO's standpoint, this is more significant from another angle too.
With such low cost, now others are looking at India as a satellite launch country. Even before, those who wanted satellite launches, often came to ISRO if cost was an issue. But success rate was not too good.
With this mission reaching this stage, ISRO has shown that it can launch any type of satellite. From satellite launch perspective, this is a complete success. No doubt about it.
All these dollars invested will come back over the next few years, as more and more companies gain more trust in ISRO launch capabilities. I won't be surprised if ISRO recovers all the costs of this mission from commercial launches within the next 5 years.
After witnessing the Aurora, I say this is sad news. Quiet sun means fewer displays like this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEHRoyvh_Ec
And maybe no more of those wild sun moments when satellite engineers go berserk in fear.
I was looking at the tech specs. Sensors are very important to me(eg Pressure, magnetic etc.,)
So I went through the list on the tech specs page, and apart from the regular proximity and stuff, there is a Hall Effect sensor too. Haven't seen it in the high end Note 2 also, or maybe Samsung calls it by a different name.
I know what is a Hall effect sensor, however, I am wondering what will it be used for here? Will it be used for whether a flip cover is open or not? For that I think you can use the light sensor too.
Answers please?
I repeat, this is Bullshit!
Indian premium brands like Taj Mahal are excellent for black tea too.
In India, few people use flavoured tea. However, they do flavor their tea.
If you want a lemony flavor - Just add a few drops of lemon juice(Fresh squeezed)
If you want aroma - Cardamon
If you want Spice - Cinnamon
Flavoring tea like this has better results than pre flavored tea. When you refer to Earl grey and such , I figure you are buying Twinnings?
Brewing tea is quite easy. Go to an Indian store and buy a 1kg pack. We get 1KG pack for your 300 INR in India for excellent tea. Thats less than 5$. With markup and all 1KG tea of good quality(eg. Taj Mahal) should be around 10-20$ in Indian stores in any big city.
That 1KG pack will brew around 500 150ml cups of tea for you.
Add milk and sugar to taste.
Here is the recipe. Remember this is how tea is made in India, which is kind of like the home of Tea. British just borrowed it and consider those silly tea bags as tea.
Lets say you want to make 300ml of tea(2 cups)
Take 300ml water.
Add sugar to taste. If you have a sweet tooth you would need around 4 teaspoons, otherwise most people do fine with 1 teaspoon each or 2 for 300ml. Use cane sugar.
Start boiling the water, and as you start seeing the steam coming, put in the tea leaves. Add 1.5 tea spoons
This figure is relative. Some like tea bitter, so you would need 2 tea spoons
Keep boiling the water with tea leaves. Once it starts boiling, i.e reaches around 100 degree C(violent water) keep boiling it for 1 minute or so.
By the end of a minute or so you would have 250ml water left. Add 50ml milk. Or add 70ml if you want it whiter.
Bring it to a boil(the mixture would start rising) and turn off the gas, and cover it for couple of minutes, sitting there.
Now pour the mixture from a sieve and throw away the spend leaves.
Drink and enjoy. Not expensive.
Some further tips. If you like a strong spicy flavor, add 1/4th teaspoon of cinnamon powder along with tea leaves.
If you like to have gingery flavor(excellent sore through remedy), put around 1 table spoon of crushed fresh ginger
If you like aromatic, add 3 small crushed cardamom cloves((a pack of 100 cloves costs around 3-4$ at Indian stores.
Some links
Tea -> http://shop.khanapakana.com/brooke-bond-taj-mahal-tea-15-8-oz-450-grams/ 6$ for half kg. you may find cheaper
Cardamon pods -> http://nhastore.com/Cardamon-Pods-Whole-Green-1-Pound-Bulk--P884492.aspx?utm_source=google&utm_medium=Product_Search&utm_campaign=google_base
Remember one cup tea needs 1 clove of cardamom so even a 30$/1lb pack will last you for 500 cups or so or even more.
If you ever make a vacation to India, buy 5kg tea and store in air tight container(it will not spoil). Will cost 15$ or so. Cardamom will be 5-6$ for 1kg pack.
Once again, lemme tell you, british do not know tea. That is not tea.
When british first discovered tea, they used to bew tea, throw away the water and eat the bitter spent leaves, and then complain that Indians eat such vile stuff
Tea has to be brewed, and the first 10-15 cups will not taste very good.
Slowly you will realize how much milk, or how much sugar, or how much tea leaves you need to add.
Watch some Indian youtube videos for tea making. You will find some where 300ml water + 70ml milk and mixed and then boiled. After the boil the burner is kept on slow and tea leaves are added which are then brewed on slow flame for 5 minutes.;
These are all variations. Experiment, and you will find what you really want.
And its a cheap cheap way to prepare tea.
In India we often make 10 cups, keep in a thermos, and for the next 5 hours we can keep microwaving and having. However after 4-5 hours, the taste starts going bad.
That its not really a smartphone.
I use android, and recently, aquired a lumia 520 running the latest windows OS. Basic things like file rename, send file as attachment in an email is not possible.
If you use an app to open a file from web, if you delete that app, all files related to that app go away.
So its kind of like a featurephone.
With here maps, its wonderful for the 520. You get an amazing GPS featurephone with great touch etc.,
However, as you spend more, you can get a smartphone so high end win os phones will never fly off the shelves.
posters here, are a fanboi. And I am not going to give you any counter argument, because any counter argument to fanboi's is useless.
As for me, I believe the best OS is the one which makes you productive. If there was one best OS, we would all use that one best OS. So different folks, different strokes, but fanbois do not understand such simple logic.
The major experience of a touch phone is the sensitity of touch. I have handled multiple phones running same version of android, with different touch sensitivity. 520 uses the "super touch or something" which allows it to be used with gloves, hence the extra sensitive touch. This is why we did not get the 620 even though its only slightly more expensive!
I use a Note 2, and have a Lumia 520 in the family. The thing which shone about the 520 is that, at the low price point, the touch and feel experience of the phone was simple marvellous. Nokia makes brilliant stuff. All they needed was a better OS.
A Nokia phone with Android OS would have been the killer. Nokia still has a lot of goodwill, esp outside USA, and when you say Nokia people still Gush, and are willing to sacrifice on the OS front for the hardware. Now with M$, that is gone.
I expect sales to go down due to two reasons
1. Nokia is gone. The name is gone. Its M$ now
2. The groups will be managed by Microsoft, and we all know how M$ has fared in hardware device management.
Saw this some time back
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buMyJPQLS9U
Most android phones I have used have an option(unchecked by default) which says download updates only on WIFI.
So unless you went to the settings and enabled that, you won't download a software update over 3G or whatever
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The period from 1950s to the 1980s was the age of invention.
People haven gotten stupider since then. They have wisened up. Why spend hard work on invention when you can buy a patent. And these smart people have created an ecosystem which nurtures MBA, Law and other non contributing disciplines. Its the culture of "Manage" rather than do. And when everybody just goes ahead and wants a pie from the big machine, what happens, slowly but steadily, invention, innovation starts dying. Over every invention lies the sword of patent. Invent a new touch screen? Give it to XYZ for free because you are stepping on some tiny patent somewhere.
And this will continue. Very soon the engineers will vanish, and the world will be doomed, as deserved.
Switch on airplane mode, switch on WIFI, and use whatever encryption you like
Looks like they haven't learnt from the Korean debacle.
Korean govt started this thing for traffic offenses (South Korea).
There was a monetary benefit too attached. Soon there were people, who deliberately slowed down while crossing on green, so their hiding snapper friend would click pictures of motorists caught unawares. Soon this developed to a stage that motorists beat up a few people., and it also resulted in streetfights. Needless to say, it was abandoned.
Now of course, there is no monetary benefit here, but you will have a small percentage who would be misguided into thinking that its their patriotic duty. There will also be a small percentage of malicious people who want to get even with their "weird" neighbor. Then there would be some douchebags who will think its a nice prank to have a swat team in their neighborhood.
So its going to be a party now
Well said
Most people forget what happened in India in the early days of an indian auction site(similar to ebay, later sold to ebay). Somebody sold a porn cd of a schoolgirl through the auction site. When the ceo from usa was visiting India, the police arrested the ceo.
go away or I will replace you with a simple shell script
In developing countries like India, a lot of people die much earlier due to lack of healthcare. Diseases like malaria, dengue, JE etc., are very common. Parasitic infections are also high on body count. Many for the want of cheap medicine which the developed world can take for granted.
This is the BS line pharma companies would like to feed you. Much of the research happens in conjunction with universities.
Pharma companies are always in for a "maintenance" cure. They do not want the permanent cure. Corporations exist for profit, and if they get less profit, it will mean a 50,000$ car instead of a 1000000$ supercar.
But just like the MAFIAA they would like you to believe that they are some kind of angels looking over starving millions.