In other article covering same research project, they sadly say
that said material is very temperature sensitive, thus unusable for cooking. Still nice curiosity.
The first and only accurate news report regarding this I heard was on Radio 4 this morning. By the time I've got to work suddenly everyone has to opt in to porn!
s/touchscreen/pay phone/door handle/any other object someone else might have handled before me/
The very fact that this product doesn't even work properly, and they admit that, just goes to show what a massive waste of time it is. Can you honestly see people waving their arms around in front of a shop window to find out more about a product. Information they're not going to be able to take home with them and study/compare.
Just stick some QR codes to the window and let people use their own hardware to access your website either on their phone or at home later.
Like the fact it doesn't fucking work. Why gestures? You could put a touch screen layer on the glass and people could interact with it like that. I've seen it done at least a decade ago for a tourist information kiosk and it worked just fine. Sounds like this is a solution desperately looking for a problem and a solution for it's own problems.
Google Apps users can't use Google+, cos Google Apps doesn't support Google Profiles. Capiche?
If you don't know Google Apps, it's a way of tying your domain name into Googles products. Mainly for the benefit of using Gmail directly with your domain, that's my reason anyway
Go look it up! The benefits of Googles spam filtering, plus everything else they offer, far outweighs the fact that they're not so "do no evil" as they used to be.
Before I read your comment, I had no idea that such a site existed. Turns out it's basically useless in my area as not enough people are submitting data.
So it's all very well that they're already doing it, but if no one knows about it, it's useless.
The BBC will probably be going on about this a lot. I've already heard about it on one of their radio stations, it was on the news on one of their TV stations this morning and now it's on Slashdot.
I expect we'll get a LOT more useful data from this in a week than Sensorly has managed in the whole time they've been running. (I have no idea how long that is)
You got me, I'm a bad parent for letting my kids play computer games. They're both scum of the earth children who already have criminal records and exclusions from multiple schools.
Or do we responsibly allow our kids to play a sensible amount of games with their friends and family on facebook.
Ignoring rules. The rules are only in place to cover their asses. I don't really see what your point is.
The problem here isn't Facebook, it's bad parenting. We let our 8 and 9 year old use Facebook. The computer is in the living room where we can see what they're doing, we vet all their friends and generally keep an eye on things. They're not stupid, if they don't know someone who requests their friendship, they block them straight away without us having to intervene. They thoroughly enjoy playing a lot of the games on there and why shouldn't they?
Facebook isn't inherently evil and something that we should keep kids away from. They've got just as much chance getting nonced up on one of the kiddy branded sites like Mushi Monsters or Panfu. Funnily enough, they haven't been.
Top tip for getting help from virgin, avoid the phone lines and get in their forums. They're very helpful and can arrange engineer visits etc for you. There's also a lot of people that work for Virgin but aren't official forum helpers who give a lot of good advice. It's possible to log into your modem and check signal levels n stuff, there's guides for all this in the forum. You can post up your results and see what the opinion is, if you've got a problem they'll send someone out to sort it.
I'm on their 50MBit package and can confirm the high speeds. Newsgroup downloads fly in at nearly 6MB/s. Also Ofcom didn't use speedtest.net to do their testing. They teamed up with samknows.com and installed modified routers between the customers own routers and their networks so they could do long term unbiased testing.
I have to talk customers through these things on the phone, you tell them to type into the address bar, then you realise they typed it into search, then you realise they've got some stupid custom search malware thing that looks like google but gives you different pages back. So then you have to go through the whole process of getting them to type in the actual address bar. Then you get a typo, or they type in the little search box at the top right.
I would say 95% of my customers don't know what the address bar is.
I hate customers sometimes. Their stupidity astounds me on a daily basis. (if any of you are reading this, I don't really hate you.)
Slashdot Mirror
In other article covering same research project, they sadly say that said material is very temperature sensitive, thus unusable for cooking. Still nice curiosity.
Goatse
What are you talking about? This isn't on by default at all.
The first and only accurate news report regarding this I heard was on Radio 4 this morning. By the time I've got to work suddenly everyone has to opt in to porn!
Replying to my own post, but there's clarification here http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/reality-check-with-polly-curtis/2011/oct/11/internet-pornography?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487
Wrong wrong wrong. You have to OPT IN to the filter.
I bought an Apple TV2, then jailbroke it and stuck XBMC on it. Haven't ever used any of the Apple software on there. Great bit of kit to run XBMC on.
Hey, I ain't sticking up for Microsoft! :D
If the hardware manufacturers don't give the key out, then it's their fault, not Microsofts. Needlessly inflammatory article IMO.
s/touchscreen/pay phone/door handle/any other object someone else might have handled before me/
The very fact that this product doesn't even work properly, and they admit that, just goes to show what a massive waste of time it is. Can you honestly see people waving their arms around in front of a shop window to find out more about a product. Information they're not going to be able to take home with them and study/compare.
Just stick some QR codes to the window and let people use their own hardware to access your website either on their phone or at home later.
Like the fact it doesn't fucking work. Why gestures? You could put a touch screen layer on the glass and people could interact with it like that. I've seen it done at least a decade ago for a tourist information kiosk and it worked just fine. Sounds like this is a solution desperately looking for a problem and a solution for it's own problems.
All I'm really using G+ for at the moment is a handy automatic backup of any photos I take on my phone, migration would be nice though.
Google Apps users can't use Google+, cos Google Apps doesn't support Google Profiles. Capiche?
If you don't know Google Apps, it's a way of tying your domain name into Googles products. Mainly for the benefit of using Gmail directly with your domain, that's my reason anyway
Go look it up! The benefits of Googles spam filtering, plus everything else they offer, far outweighs the fact that they're not so "do no evil" as they used to be.
How about just getting the hell on with it and adding support for Google Apps users? Once again we're left lagging behind!
Before I read your comment, I had no idea that such a site existed. Turns out it's basically useless in my area as not enough people are submitting data.
So it's all very well that they're already doing it, but if no one knows about it, it's useless.
The BBC will probably be going on about this a lot. I've already heard about it on one of their radio stations, it was on the news on one of their TV stations this morning and now it's on Slashdot.
I expect we'll get a LOT more useful data from this in a week than Sensorly has managed in the whole time they've been running. (I have no idea how long that is)
You got me, I'm a bad parent for letting my kids play computer games. They're both scum of the earth children who already have criminal records and exclusions from multiple schools.
Or do we responsibly allow our kids to play a sensible amount of games with their friends and family on facebook.
Ignoring rules. The rules are only in place to cover their asses. I don't really see what your point is.
We live in the UK.
I dunno how it works for your family, but we don't let websites make the rules in our house.
The problem here isn't Facebook, it's bad parenting. We let our 8 and 9 year old use Facebook. The computer is in the living room where we can see what they're doing, we vet all their friends and generally keep an eye on things. They're not stupid, if they don't know someone who requests their friendship, they block them straight away without us having to intervene. They thoroughly enjoy playing a lot of the games on there and why shouldn't they?
Facebook isn't inherently evil and something that we should keep kids away from. They've got just as much chance getting nonced up on one of the kiddy branded sites like Mushi Monsters or Panfu. Funnily enough, they haven't been.
It looks awfully like an American company for American users. What about the rest of the world?
Not that I care as I don't own anything made by Sony.
But this has to be the biggest load of shit I've ever read on /.
Gaming mice in "no better than a normal mouse for non gaming tasks" shocker.
Sort it out /.
Top tip for getting help from virgin, avoid the phone lines and get in their forums. They're very helpful and can arrange engineer visits etc for you. There's also a lot of people that work for Virgin but aren't official forum helpers who give a lot of good advice. It's possible to log into your modem and check signal levels n stuff, there's guides for all this in the forum. You can post up your results and see what the opinion is, if you've got a problem they'll send someone out to sort it.
http://community.virginmedia.com/
I'm on their 50MBit package and can confirm the high speeds. Newsgroup downloads fly in at nearly 6MB/s. Also Ofcom didn't use speedtest.net to do their testing. They teamed up with samknows.com and installed modified routers between the customers own routers and their networks so they could do long term unbiased testing.
http://www.samknows.com/broadband/ofcom_and_samknows
I have to talk customers through these things on the phone, you tell them to type into the address bar, then you realise they typed it into search, then you realise they've got some stupid custom search malware thing that looks like google but gives you different pages back. So then you have to go through the whole process of getting them to type in the actual address bar. Then you get a typo, or they type in the little search box at the top right.
I would say 95% of my customers don't know what the address bar is.
I hate customers sometimes. Their stupidity astounds me on a daily basis. (if any of you are reading this, I don't really hate you.)
ps. I do.
Mark ZuckeNberg?? How the hell did so many spelling mistakes slip through the net?
They're putting makeup on satellites now?