the keyboard they copied isn't the crappy one from the curve, which is a pretty standard smartphone keyboard, and was nothing special to type on... They copied the keyboard from the "Bold" which was the best "narrow" keyboard ever made for a device. The "Typo" is very clearly an EXACT copy of the bold keyboard, right down to the metal trim, color, genius button shape (keys gently raised on one side so you can use keys that are smaller than your fingers, but still have the keys touching).
They keyboard IS something special, and IS subject to a patent. Is blackberry going to rise from the dead? no. Are they entitled to control the use of their design? I think so. The Typo is clearly a "distinctly blackberry keyboard for your iphone" which isn't really "fair"
"Digital Fortress" wherein a rogue NSA cryptographer out to save and or destroy a 12-ton NSA codebreaking (quantum?) computer gets chased by a blind assassin for some reason... and a 64 BIT encryption key was pressed into a gold ring, but was somehow made up of 64 ascii characters.
Don't worry because (spoiler) the "enigma" or whatever melted down when a virus caused it to something something, not even the fat IT guy named Jabba was able to stop the awesome power of something something. I am not even joking.
Although since it is written from the point of view of an NSA "genius," I suppose the glaring errors make it a lot more realistic.
Time shifting is no longer the "killer feature," time shifting IS television. This is the equivalent of a TV station in the 1950s saying "we will no longer be offering moving pictures with our radio programs."
I have not watched TV on a network schedule for a decade, and my children don't even have the concept of a "TV Schedule".
Fighting consumer demand is difficult, fighting consumer default expectations is suicide; especially in Entertainment media, where the whole world can turn on a dime, except you.
it exposes the raw functionality of Android's speech recognition better than anything else I have seen. "I just want something that will put on screen what is said aloud" is a feature set that is surprisingly hard to find.
The main gap I see is that this is really only practical for 1v1 conversations and group settings will require exponentially more sophistication, to identify and differentiate between different speakers.
I would love to say that loved ones should fucking learn their child/parent/friend's first language so they can converse in ASL, but that is a surprisingly hard sell for some people. ASL is my son's first language, and there are plenty of people in his life who refuse to learn to speak with him.
but in the Zemeckis causality, a genius inventor with no regard for preserving the natural timeline traveled back to 1885, and then abandoned a highly sophisticated laboratory capable of refrigeration and probably other disruptive technologies. In other words, the 2015 we saw in Back to the Future, was heavily augmented by timeline disrupting technology injections in both 1885 and 1955... and 1985 for that matter. Chances are, most of that stuff could not be invented as early in our timeline, because in the BTTF timeline, doc brown and others saw the various technologies in action, years before they were duplicated/invented.
In my opinion this same phenomenon explains perfectly why the JJAbrams Star Trek is perfectly justified in having more advanced ships and transporters than the Roddenberry continuity. 8 minutes of sensor scans of a ship 129 more years advanced than anything ever witnessed would change the course of technology forever.
My collection starts at NES/Master system and includes "everything but xbox" (not really, but close). My kids are ages 4,4,7, and 8.
There is always an assortment of consoles attached to the TV so they have the opportunity to experience whatever they want,
they will pick up just about anything, though they usually stick with PS3 disney Infinity or Skylanders or the Tell-tale Lego games
Mostly the 8 year old prefers PC games (including emulators), because you don't have to share them. Consoles are a community event, which is frustrating with 4-year-old brothers.
Recently the 8 year old was staring at my video game cabinet and asked "which one of these can play Donkey Kong?" so I know I am doing something right.
As you get comfortable being an adult, inevitably all change makes the world seem like it is ending. But it keeps marching on.
Facebook ruined the world, and so did video games, and fast food, and television, and rock and roll, and radio, and comic books, and dime-store novels, and cars, and bicycles, and Vaudeville, and Shakespeare, and classical Roman convenience foods like bread and soup, and probably every other invention adopted by the young or profane.
I guess... it was 7.5 million dollars per kilo 2 years ago. As more and more research is done on it, we are figuring out pretty quickly that HE3 is going to be the subject of exponential demand. It will take a good solid 20-100 years of work to set up a mining operation on the moon... Will it take less or more than that to complete and prove HE3 as the ultimate nuclear energy fuel? Who can afford to risk energy independence? China? India? USA?
Helium 3 is 15 million dollars per kilogram, which makes transport less of a concern and we haven't really even figured out how to use it yet., hypothetically, it is the only known element that can be used in a fusion reactor with little or NO radioactive waste.
the only place we can get it is natural gas wells (it is extremely scarce, but sometimes found in very small quantities in wells), it happens to be relatively abundant on the moon.
The race for the moon is really a race for clean nuclear energy, which is quite a prize.
It is impossible to get sh!t done in the pacific northwest, which is fine if you are in to that sort of thing. In addition, people in the Pacific Northwest have this idea that unless they band together and only "buy local", that the transformative power of poorly understood economic fallacy will magically create a closed loop utopia.
I saw upthread people were suggesting Portland and Tacoma, which have the same problem turned up to ELEVEN.
A much simpler approach would be to sniff their smartphones, so you could send the driver a text that says "STOP UR CAR, LOL"
In my experience, the average driver will obey their smartphone screen more readily than local traffic laws.
The supported list of devices for legit android "play" is a small fraction of the android devices out there. I have 5 android devices... (I know I have a problem)... NONE of them can use the play store. All of them can use Amazon app store though, you know because amazon supports android and google doesn't.
So basically if your app is not in the amazon store, I can't pay you for it. Also applies to free apps like facebook, I have to "pirate" it. I can't even sideload stuff from "Play" because it won't let me buy an app because I don't have any android devices associated with my account (because it won't let me).
Like Blu-ray and even 3D, the framerate "War" is a solution waiting for a problem. Show me ANYONE in mainstream society who gives a shit about 720p vs 1080p or even Blu-ray vs DVD... Now have them do a comparison that is NOT side by side, they won't be able to tell. Now find me a single monster cable buying Blu-ray consuming joe-sixpack who will say "the problem with movies today is the framerate is too low". You will never ever be able to find someone who is not an obsessed spreadsheet spec consumer who cares.
ALL my non-tech friends thanked me when I turned off motion prediction on their expensive HD TVs (which is that feature that makes HD movies look like shit by predicting motion and simulating greater framerate to make it smoother aka more "soap-opera looking" in layman's terms.)
People care about story, spectacle, popcorn in that order. Nowhere on the ticket buying masses' list is framerate, though I look forward to the "General Hobbital" "One Ring to Live" and "Days of our Shire" jokes.
it was YT's dog. But yeah, same general rules apply, and I would love to get misty for a dog robot thing who sacrifices his life because once a girl fed him when he was abused and starving.
Unfortunately, people now will be completely nonplussed when they see the app.
> I want to see some awesome skating scenes (featuring pooning an electric car going its top speed of 10 mph)
Please don't use that word. It doesn't mean what you think it means.
nonplussed - Surprised and confused so much that they are unsure how to react.
it can also mean "not troubled."
If you mean unimpressed, just say unimpressed. If you mean underwhelmed, say underwhelmed.
You just have to establish it way earlier... Show YT loves fido and feeds him and then when she is leaving the trashed out apartment building someone jumps her and she screams or makes some noise. He jumps through the window and bites the attacker, getting fatally injured and is picked up by an automated greater hong kong garbage drone.
When she jumps from the chopper she makes the same noise, 2 second onscreen flashback as he crashes through the glass/jumps the brick wall and races to the finish.
Basically the exact thing that really happened in the book but with a tiny foreshadow added to dumb it down for the audience, and remove the need for us to live inside the dog's head, which doesn't work in movies (or books usually hah).
I have never ever met a co-worker with an IT title or job description who pushed for "Cloud" "Workflow" "CRM" "Near Sourcing" "Off Shoring" or whatever other new name for old tech that might fly across executive management's desk. That is for CEOs and people who don't know what the fuck they are talking about to chase, and for us to implement.
Yeah just don't try to free lots of memory in VB6!!!
Go ahead and try it...
or.net or java or any common application like firefox or chrome. Modern development doesn't free memory, it restarts/launches a new process. Garbage collection has been a joke since before we started measuring ram in gb instead of mb.
In the Humani Generis in 1950 the catholic church officially stated that there is no conflict between evolution and dogma. Later in the 1990s their position was further refined to include an acceptance that the human body itself is the result of evolution. Evolution is more than a hypothesis, according to papal decree aka, church policy is that evolution happens, evolution resulted in humans, but that the spirit or soul comes from god.
I mean say what you will about christians or evolutionists, 1.2 billion of them(theoretically over half) belong to a church that believes evolution happened.
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the keyboard they copied isn't the crappy one from the curve, which is a pretty standard smartphone keyboard, and was nothing special to type on... They copied the keyboard from the "Bold" which was the best "narrow" keyboard ever made for a device. The "Typo" is very clearly an EXACT copy of the bold keyboard, right down to the metal trim, color, genius button shape (keys gently raised on one side so you can use keys that are smaller than your fingers, but still have the keys touching).
They keyboard IS something special, and IS subject to a patent. Is blackberry going to rise from the dead? no. Are they entitled to control the use of their design? I think so. The Typo is clearly a "distinctly blackberry keyboard for your iphone" which isn't really "fair"
"Digital Fortress" wherein a rogue NSA cryptographer out to save and or destroy a 12-ton NSA codebreaking (quantum?) computer gets chased by a blind assassin for some reason... and a 64 BIT encryption key was pressed into a gold ring, but was somehow made up of 64 ascii characters.
Don't worry because (spoiler) the "enigma" or whatever melted down when a virus caused it to something something, not even the fat IT guy named Jabba was able to stop the awesome power of something something. I am not even joking.
Although since it is written from the point of view of an NSA "genius," I suppose the glaring errors make it a lot more realistic.
Netflix: "The Goal Is to Become HBO Faster Than HBO Can Become Us"
Time shifting is no longer the "killer feature," time shifting IS television. This is the equivalent of a TV station in the 1950s saying "we will no longer be offering moving pictures with our radio programs."
I have not watched TV on a network schedule for a decade, and my children don't even have the concept of a "TV Schedule".
Fighting consumer demand is difficult, fighting consumer default expectations is suicide; especially in Entertainment media, where the whole world can turn on a dime, except you.
it exposes the raw functionality of Android's speech recognition better than anything else I have seen. "I just want something that will put on screen what is said aloud" is a feature set that is surprisingly hard to find.
The main gap I see is that this is really only practical for 1v1 conversations and group settings will require exponentially more sophistication, to identify and differentiate between different speakers.
I would love to say that loved ones should fucking learn their child/parent/friend's first language so they can converse in ASL, but that is a surprisingly hard sell for some people. ASL is my son's first language, and there are plenty of people in his life who refuse to learn to speak with him.
but in the Zemeckis causality, a genius inventor with no regard for preserving the natural timeline traveled back to 1885, and then abandoned a highly sophisticated laboratory capable of refrigeration and probably other disruptive technologies. In other words, the 2015 we saw in Back to the Future, was heavily augmented by timeline disrupting technology injections in both 1885 and 1955... and 1985 for that matter. Chances are, most of that stuff could not be invented as early in our timeline, because in the BTTF timeline, doc brown and others saw the various technologies in action, years before they were duplicated/invented.
In my opinion this same phenomenon explains perfectly why the JJAbrams Star Trek is perfectly justified in having more advanced ships and transporters than the Roddenberry continuity. 8 minutes of sensor scans of a ship 129 more years advanced than anything ever witnessed would change the course of technology forever.
My collection starts at NES/Master system and includes "everything but xbox" (not really, but close). My kids are ages 4,4,7, and 8.
There is always an assortment of consoles attached to the TV so they have the opportunity to experience whatever they want, they will pick up just about anything, though they usually stick with PS3 disney Infinity or Skylanders or the Tell-tale Lego games
Mostly the 8 year old prefers PC games (including emulators), because you don't have to share them. Consoles are a community event, which is frustrating with 4-year-old brothers.
Recently the 8 year old was staring at my video game cabinet and asked "which one of these can play Donkey Kong?" so I know I am doing something right.
As you get comfortable being an adult, inevitably all change makes the world seem like it is ending. But it keeps marching on.
Facebook ruined the world, and so did video games, and fast food, and television, and rock and roll, and radio, and comic books, and dime-store novels, and cars, and bicycles, and Vaudeville, and Shakespeare, and classical Roman convenience foods like bread and soup, and probably every other invention adopted by the young or profane.
I guess... it was 7.5 million dollars per kilo 2 years ago. As more and more research is done on it, we are figuring out pretty quickly that HE3 is going to be the subject of exponential demand. It will take a good solid 20-100 years of work to set up a mining operation on the moon... Will it take less or more than that to complete and prove HE3 as the ultimate nuclear energy fuel? Who can afford to risk energy independence? China? India? USA?
Helium 3 is 15 million dollars per kilogram, which makes transport less of a concern and we haven't really even figured out how to use it yet., hypothetically, it is the only known element that can be used in a fusion reactor with little or NO radioactive waste.
the only place we can get it is natural gas wells (it is extremely scarce, but sometimes found in very small quantities in wells), it happens to be relatively abundant on the moon.
The race for the moon is really a race for clean nuclear energy, which is quite a prize.
It is impossible to get sh!t done in the pacific northwest, which is fine if you are in to that sort of thing. In addition, people in the Pacific Northwest have this idea that unless they band together and only "buy local", that the transformative power of poorly understood economic fallacy will magically create a closed loop utopia.
I saw upthread people were suggesting Portland and Tacoma, which have the same problem turned up to ELEVEN.
A much simpler approach would be to sniff their smartphones, so you could send the driver a text that says "STOP UR CAR, LOL"
In my experience, the average driver will obey their smartphone screen more readily than local traffic laws.
The supported list of devices for legit android "play" is a small fraction of the android devices out there. I have 5 android devices... (I know I have a problem)... NONE of them can use the play store. All of them can use Amazon app store though, you know because amazon supports android and google doesn't.
So basically if your app is not in the amazon store, I can't pay you for it. Also applies to free apps like facebook, I have to "pirate" it. I can't even sideload stuff from "Play" because it won't let me buy an app because I don't have any android devices associated with my account (because it won't let me).
Like Blu-ray and even 3D, the framerate "War" is a solution waiting for a problem. Show me ANYONE in mainstream society who gives a shit about 720p vs 1080p or even Blu-ray vs DVD... Now have them do a comparison that is NOT side by side, they won't be able to tell. Now find me a single monster cable buying Blu-ray consuming joe-sixpack who will say "the problem with movies today is the framerate is too low". You will never ever be able to find someone who is not an obsessed spreadsheet spec consumer who cares.
ALL my non-tech friends thanked me when I turned off motion prediction on their expensive HD TVs (which is that feature that makes HD movies look like shit by predicting motion and simulating greater framerate to make it smoother aka more "soap-opera looking" in layman's terms.)
People care about story, spectacle, popcorn in that order. Nowhere on the ticket buying masses' list is framerate, though I look forward to the "General Hobbital" "One Ring to Live" and "Days of our Shire" jokes.
it was YT's dog. But yeah, same general rules apply, and I would love to get misty for a dog robot thing who sacrifices his life because once a girl fed him when he was abused and starving.
Unfortunately, people now will be completely nonplussed when they see the app.
> I want to see some awesome skating scenes (featuring pooning an electric car going its top speed of 10 mph)
Please don't use that word. It doesn't mean what you think it means.
nonplussed - Surprised and confused so much that they are unsure how to react. it can also mean "not troubled."
If you mean unimpressed, just say unimpressed. If you mean underwhelmed, say underwhelmed.
Pretty much I assume that is why they revived the project, there is finally someone who can play that role.
You just have to establish it way earlier... Show YT loves fido and feeds him and then when she is leaving the trashed out apartment building someone jumps her and she screams or makes some noise. He jumps through the window and bites the attacker, getting fatally injured and is picked up by an automated greater hong kong garbage drone.
When she jumps from the chopper she makes the same noise, 2 second onscreen flashback as he crashes through the glass/jumps the brick wall and races to the finish.
Basically the exact thing that really happened in the book but with a tiny foreshadow added to dumb it down for the audience, and remove the need for us to live inside the dog's head, which doesn't work in movies (or books usually hah).
It was a like an Ritalin-addicts pastiche of William Gibson.
Hah, there is no accounting for personal taste. That tagline would sell me any book that bore it.
It was called "open battle.net" Then later it was just called Diablo 2, since after a while there wasn't a legit player in the whole game.
My laptop doesn't even have ten eighty peas. I cry myself to sleep every night, snuggled up against my turtleneck that isn't even black.
Your new notwindows is shiny and stylish! When you go to starbucks to check your facebooks people will totally think you are an artistic writer!
I have never ever met a co-worker with an IT title or job description who pushed for "Cloud" "Workflow" "CRM" "Near Sourcing" "Off Shoring" or whatever other new name for old tech that might fly across executive management's desk. That is for CEOs and people who don't know what the fuck they are talking about to chase, and for us to implement.
Yeah just don't try to free lots of memory in VB6!!!
Go ahead and try it...
or .net or java or any common application like firefox or chrome. Modern development doesn't free memory, it restarts/launches a new process. Garbage collection has been a joke since before we started measuring ram in gb instead of mb.
In the Humani Generis in 1950 the catholic church officially stated that there is no conflict between evolution and dogma. Later in the 1990s their position was further refined to include an acceptance that the human body itself is the result of evolution. Evolution is more than a hypothesis, according to papal decree aka, church policy is that evolution happens, evolution resulted in humans, but that the spirit or soul comes from god.
I mean say what you will about christians or evolutionists, 1.2 billion of them(theoretically over half) belong to a church that believes evolution happened.