If manufacturers are going to insist on touch screens in cars (and I really wish they wouldn't), then this could be useful. Phone? I'll buy one with a flippy-outy keyboard.
FWIW, I asked my Android phone (HTC Desire Z) to take me to Hoover Dam a couple of weeks ago, and it had no idea about the "new" bridge there. It just sat there showing me driving across nothing, then through the river, and finally started bitching when I got back onto the pre-existing highway. How old is that bridge? The maps were downloaded a month ago.
They claim these will capture "only the license plate, the GPS coordinates and the direction of travel". With no timestamp, how do they intend to know which records are more than two years old? You know they're logging the time there too.
It's one northbound and one southbound camera at the moment, but add "just" another one and they'll have your location twice and how long you took to cover the distance. Then some bright spark will work out that they can calculate your average speed and - PROFIT!!! Isn't scope creep wonderful?
(Having driven I-15 last week, not having to take the cruise control off $BIG_NUMBER for pretty much two hours straight, that would have hurt!)
I've seen this sort of thing happening before, on airliners.net. The owner sold the whole thing to Demand Media and dropped off the face of the earth. "We love aviation, here's a few token videos"... and a totally horked migration, and when they should have been fixing that they instead found time to slip IntelliTXT ads into the forums. The community's shot, the real experts have moved on leaving 13-year-old airline pilots and CEOs behind. I left and helped set up an alternative.
I really don't want Slashdot to go the same way, but the writing is on the wall.
That was cut and pasted from your summary into your comments box. How about less pratting around on stuff nobody wants and more fixing the basics?
(And how damn long do I have to wait before I can post another comment? Excellent karma and apparently I can't be trusted not to flood the board. All I'm good for is ad eyeballs, it seems.)
...couldn't even salvage the misplaced apostrophe. Maybe we can get Dorset Police to edit Slashdot in their spare time, since they like helping the blind?
Maybe I wasn't clear enough, but the GP said, "a written story is obviously superior," and my "Superior for the user" was following on from that. We agree that the video isn't superior for the user. I suspect that it's superior for the advertiser (or multiple advertisers throughout the same video), and that that's why we're getting this shoved down our throats.
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You, or the TV?
Would that be the DMC, eh?
I find myself wondering whether he would remember the loss of so many family members
Not any more...
I guess those cows failed the Turing test...
dads, it's up to you to keep your daughters off the pole.
Send them to me, I'm a brit :D
I have an HTC Desire Z and I'm keeping it ;) Touch screens suck for typing anything longer than a phone number.
If manufacturers are going to insist on touch screens in cars (and I really wish they wouldn't), then this could be useful. Phone? I'll buy one with a flippy-outy keyboard.
It was, until the neon tube failed.
99.9% of userland is closed
When I hear "userland", I like to imagine a safari (lowercase S) theme park where we get to shoot them. ;)
AC could open a Canadian take-away...
FWIW, I asked my Android phone (HTC Desire Z) to take me to Hoover Dam a couple of weeks ago, and it had no idea about the "new" bridge there. It just sat there showing me driving across nothing, then through the river, and finally started bitching when I got back onto the pre-existing highway. How old is that bridge? The maps were downloaded a month ago.
She doesn't grill very well, though, in any sense.
Something tells me "Jim Conte" and "Thomas O'Mara" will be doing a lot of comment posting if this goes through...
They claim these will capture "only the license plate, the GPS coordinates and the direction of travel". With no timestamp, how do they intend to know which records are more than two years old? You know they're logging the time there too.
It's one northbound and one southbound camera at the moment, but add "just" another one and they'll have your location twice and how long you took to cover the distance. Then some bright spark will work out that they can calculate your average speed and - PROFIT!!! Isn't scope creep wonderful?
(Having driven I-15 last week, not having to take the cruise control off $BIG_NUMBER for pretty much two hours straight, that would have hurt!)
I've seen this sort of thing happening before, on airliners.net. The owner sold the whole thing to Demand Media and dropped off the face of the earth. "We love aviation, here's a few token videos"... and a totally horked migration, and when they should have been fixing that they instead found time to slip IntelliTXT ads into the forums. The community's shot, the real experts have moved on leaving 13-year-old airline pilots and CEOs behind. I left and helped set up an alternative.
I really don't want Slashdot to go the same way, but the writing is on the wall.
Good call on the Bailey's, though :)
That was cut and pasted from your summary into your comments box. How about less pratting around on stuff nobody wants and more fixing the basics?
(And how damn long do I have to wait before I can post another comment? Excellent karma and apparently I can't be trusted not to flood the board. All I'm good for is ad eyeballs, it seems.)
"No matter what your background, chances are good youâ(TM)ll find something of interest here."
Nnnnnnope.
Finnair A320s have 'em too.
...couldn't even salvage the misplaced apostrophe. Maybe we can get Dorset Police to edit Slashdot in their spare time, since they like helping the blind?
I was deadly serious, but still ended up with +5 Funny :)
...people would forget everything you said, then spend the next month asking how to make PowerPoint do that.
Slashdot editors seem to take the cut-and-paste approach rather than fact checking. Or even spell checking.
I think you've nailed it. This video malarkey is the editors' way of avoiding learning to spell! Ingenious...
Maybe I wasn't clear enough, but the GP said, "a written story is obviously superior," and my "Superior for the user" was following on from that. We agree that the video isn't superior for the user. I suspect that it's superior for the advertiser (or multiple advertisers throughout the same video), and that that's why we're getting this shoved down our throats.
Superior *for the user*, but the ads will be harder to block in a video. You know that's where this is going.
Didn't watch this one in case it's another Plantronics stunt.
It's bad enough taking existing patents and adding "ON THE INTERNET", without doing it to existing laws as well.