That makes sense! I appreciate slashdot for these little things. I have read about GPS, but didn't derive these two characteristics. I remember something about quantum entanglement one day allowing for a more sensitive read of when the signal arrived, I have read about WAAS.. and when the prices of atomic clock chips come down I hope they are used in just this way.
//Satnav has always fascinated me. I use a Miomap-Digiwalker flashed with a WinCE shell featuring IGO8 (best nav soft on standalone GPS's in my opinion) and am always looking for even better solutions. I don't want to rely on 3G for maps as I've used them on roadtrips far from cell towers, so that rules out many newer devices.
i wonder (and I am NOT saying anything educated but I wonder) if you could simplify the GPS signal (which currently has to send time, and that is used to get distance) if you had an accurate clock in the receiver. If you could simplify the signal, could you make GPS more accurate or have much better reach in terms of reception?
i'm sure there are tons of uses for a good atomic clock, but this leapt to mind. If someone can say why i'm wrong, it would teach me much:)
Yeah, well that's why corporations suck. What should have happened was that the boss got sacked for being incompetent dead wood. Either the employee wasn't being adequately kept in the loop about what needs doing or the boss wasn't aware of dead wood, in either case the boss ought to have been terminated.
THIS. Your ethical behavior will result in immediate termination!
because a LightPen only works on *CRT* screens is why. it depends on the refresh "dot" of the electron gun and has no analogy on LCD screens in use everywhere today. At least there is an answer:)
this is ludicrous. And even then -- apple, with its single button mouse - doesn't need your bindings. ingenious, your saying, i know, but what you just can't seem to understand is fitt's law -- it SUCKS to have no accuracy because your UI uses buttons that are too small, for no good reason.
wow you ARE a well programmed, aren't you. There's no such thing as a free lunch, esp. with telcos (happy cricket customer here). The idea you "save" money by signing a two year contract is laughable, and anyway, the prices they show you in the store are crazy -- you wouldn't pay that in the real world if you're not dense.
i'm going to have to go ahead and agree here. All hail the HIG. It's very important to let psychologists develop interfaces and NOT developers although I am a developer (and so I tweak my environment a LOT ) and that *still* doesn't mean i'm the average case!
Developers would be wise to lose some of the ego. If car makers (here comes the car analogy!) required you to install your choice of stick shift mechanism after you purchased your call, a lot of people (including developers!) would just stay in 1st gear.
Thankfully they do not ask this of the public as you the developer probably thought first "that'd be cool!" -- and in actuality you should have thought "that'd be really, really unsafe for most people!" Consider.
if you're soooo stupid as to be reflecting terrahertz waves, then you really deserve to be imaged in your bathtub from orbit, tubby
(your argument is painfully egotistic and worries me)
the efficiency gain of cell phones (if merely the amount of fuel saved by knowing where to go pick someone up resulting in far, far fewer missed trips or re-routes nevermind time and safety-as-in-perhaps-your-life) makes them an indispensable champion of the green movement in many ways. Its not a "soft" requirement its a damn revolution. Wake up man. (or troll-man, whatever)
also... it's harder to damage. with a netbook, the keys get worn out. On a tablet like apples... pretty much you either break it or it ain't; a nice cleaning gets them to be almost new. that's a nice advantage, year to year.
hahaha - anything these companies can do to sell hardware they didn't make without having to make any investment themselves.
Make the damn software work already, everybody! and let's stop letting developers make rules about how things should be used. That's for psychologist, HIG experts... the guy writing code in emacs maybe doesn't get ease of use? ya think??
Yeah - if they gave windows 7 away FOR FREE to make up for the crime of making people pay for those "unsafe jalopies" then you might have a point. This sounds sorta like extortion.
"important for content creators to be able to monetize their work in order to incentivize better content"
yeah..... cause "Terminator 8: revenge of the Transformers from Alderaan" is just sooo important.
Your "content incentivization" sounds a lot like selling dumb people endorphins. Way to lead to the future, jerk.
and you point out a carefully constructed view. The UI differences - multitouch and cocoa touch thereby being an example - have made the consumer extremely aware that apps written for one platform just make no sense on the other! With windows having, from a UI sense, much less differentiation (and mean wince 6.5 and previous) between phone and desktop, they could not craft the same expectation that a windows app should be "hard" to make work on a portable device. In this case, multitouch has become the valhalla by which OSX application developers can get the the average person to happily buy the same code twice Whether I like it or not.. windows would wise to "invent" a UI that has a basic divide from their mainstream offering. Is that their current offering? Maybe.. but I personally have no clue (*as a savvy developer*) what the hell all those boxes on the screen are other then some art students' thesis....
yeah.... although I did not foresee that the telepathy I read about so much in books would all be mediated through business and police. I think HTTG got it right when he predicted it will be a curse, not a blessing. Which is not the future I read about and want, so I hope I can continue to convince myself there is nobility in this new "addiction to virtual sight"
"But first let's kill all the lawyers" was a quote from an man of evil slant dreaming of his ability to remove his impediments to power. Just so no one walks away from this thinking that "But first let's kill all the lawyers" was stated as a GOOD idea.
oh geez.. you're argument sounds exactly like an elderly dude wishing for the yesteryear. No matter how much you wish you knew NOW what you knew THEN... it's not going to help. The future is not written, my friend (to whom I wish longevity!)
"Format shifting" from bits to sound waves.... this is stupid. They format shifted from the CD to RADIO WAVES.
And they say nothing. Show me the exception.
if you were only downloading music, your claims def. sound very off base. If you were downloading software, and are not a software developer yourself (i am) then, yes, it can be bad.
But for music only, no, downloading music does not have anything to do with malware.
(aimed at the readers of this comment) Try not to be such a click addict
maybe people look at you funny because you use the word "malware" when you're talking about downloading mp3s. You don't sound very well informed about the topic, and perhaps a bit... er.... biased. Perhaps you make money by selling intangibles at massive markup, giving undeserved economic clout to degenerates IMNSHO?
Your examples infer real-time computational needs. If we decided to render these types of results at fixed-intervals and show results up to some time that they are stale... then you are pretty much describing google and we can do this. It would be useful to have a 'google' in ones pocket however, if only to index live feeds of your life taken by a "personal server" (aka cell phone) and available to the user for recall purposes.
P.s. for the security minded it would be best if it had incredible security, backups and fast wipes too, for I correctly think having all your life accessible via subpoena or accident is a bad idea. Fwiw, and somewhat topical, a lot of technology is social bound, and doesn't have much to do with what we could do...
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That makes sense! I appreciate slashdot for these little things. I have read about GPS, but didn't derive these two characteristics. I remember something about quantum entanglement one day allowing for a more sensitive read of when the signal arrived, I have read about WAAS.. and when the prices of atomic clock chips come down I hope they are used in just this way.
//Satnav has always fascinated me. I use a Miomap-Digiwalker flashed with a WinCE shell featuring IGO8 (best nav soft on standalone GPS's in my opinion) and am always looking for even better solutions. I don't want to rely on 3G for maps as I've used them on roadtrips far from cell towers, so that rules out many newer devices.
i wonder (and I am NOT saying anything educated but I wonder) if you could simplify the GPS signal (which currently has to send time, and that is used to get distance) if you had an accurate clock in the receiver. If you could simplify the signal, could you make GPS more accurate or have much better reach in terms of reception?
:)
i'm sure there are tons of uses for a good atomic clock, but this leapt to mind. If someone can say why i'm wrong, it would teach me much
you are in every likelyhood quite wrong. time will show you're about as accurate as a montage from the 1900's: http://www.boredpanda.com/future-predicting-postcards-from-around-1900/
Psygnosis... yes! Where is Shadow of the Beast.. any game where i die just to hear the music ... is ART!
Yeah, well that's why corporations suck. What should have happened was that the boss got sacked for being incompetent dead wood. Either the employee wasn't being adequately kept in the loop about what needs doing or the boss wasn't aware of dead wood, in either case the boss ought to have been terminated.
THIS. Your ethical behavior will result in immediate termination!
because a LightPen only works on *CRT* screens is why. it depends on the refresh "dot" of the electron gun and has no analogy on LCD screens in use everywhere today. At least there is an answer :)
this is ludicrous. And even then -- apple, with its single button mouse - doesn't need your bindings. ingenious, your saying, i know, but what you just can't seem to understand is fitt's law -- it SUCKS to have no accuracy because your UI uses buttons that are too small, for no good reason.
Design for fingers is not design for mouse.
wow you ARE a well programmed, aren't you. There's no such thing as a free lunch, esp. with telcos (happy cricket customer here). The idea you "save" money by signing a two year contract is laughable, and anyway, the prices they show you in the store are crazy -- you wouldn't pay that in the real world if you're not dense.
i'm going to have to go ahead and agree here. All hail the HIG. It's very important to let psychologists develop interfaces and NOT developers although I am a developer (and so I tweak my environment a LOT ) and that *still* doesn't mean i'm the average case!
Developers would be wise to lose some of the ego. If car makers (here comes the car analogy!) required you to install your choice of stick shift mechanism after you purchased your call, a lot of people (including developers!) would just stay in 1st gear.
Thankfully they do not ask this of the public as you the developer probably thought first "that'd be cool!" -- and in actuality you should have thought "that'd be really, really unsafe for most people!" Consider.
if you're soooo stupid as to be reflecting terrahertz waves, then you really deserve to be imaged in your bathtub from orbit, tubby (your argument is painfully egotistic and worries me)
the efficiency gain of cell phones (if merely the amount of fuel saved by knowing where to go pick someone up resulting in far, far fewer missed trips or re-routes nevermind time and safety-as-in-perhaps-your-life) makes them an indispensable champion of the green movement in many ways. Its not a "soft" requirement its a damn revolution. Wake up man. (or troll-man, whatever)
also... it's harder to damage. with a netbook, the keys get worn out. On a tablet like apples... pretty much you either break it or it ain't; a nice cleaning gets them to be almost new. that's a nice advantage, year to year.
check my UID. that sounds very familiar. Perhaps we need help... (article to the left, support group line up to the right...:)
hahaha - anything these companies can do to sell hardware they didn't make without having to make any investment themselves. Make the damn software work already, everybody! and let's stop letting developers make rules about how things should be used. That's for psychologist, HIG experts... the guy writing code in emacs maybe doesn't get ease of use? ya think??
Yeah - if they gave windows 7 away FOR FREE to make up for the crime of making people pay for those "unsafe jalopies" then you might have a point. This sounds sorta like extortion.
"important for content creators to be able to monetize their work in order to incentivize better content" yeah..... cause "Terminator 8: revenge of the Transformers from Alderaan" is just sooo important. Your "content incentivization" sounds a lot like selling dumb people endorphins. Way to lead to the future, jerk.
and you point out a carefully constructed view. The UI differences - multitouch and cocoa touch thereby being an example - have made the consumer extremely aware that apps written for one platform just make no sense on the other! With windows having, from a UI sense, much less differentiation (and mean wince 6.5 and previous) between phone and desktop, they could not craft the same expectation that a windows app should be "hard" to make work on a portable device. In this case, multitouch has become the valhalla by which OSX application developers can get the the average person to happily buy the same code twice Whether I like it or not.. windows would wise to "invent" a UI that has a basic divide from their mainstream offering. Is that their current offering? Maybe.. but I personally have no clue (*as a savvy developer*) what the hell all those boxes on the screen are other then some art students' thesis....
yeah.... although I did not foresee that the telepathy I read about so much in books would all be mediated through business and police. I think HTTG got it right when he predicted it will be a curse, not a blessing. Which is not the future I read about and want, so I hope I can continue to convince myself there is nobility in this new "addiction to virtual sight"
"But first let's kill all the lawyers" was a quote from an man of evil slant dreaming of his ability to remove his impediments to power. Just so no one walks away from this thinking that "But first let's kill all the lawyers" was stated as a GOOD idea.
oh geez.. you're argument sounds exactly like an elderly dude wishing for the yesteryear. No matter how much you wish you knew NOW what you knew THEN... it's not going to help. The future is not written, my friend (to whom I wish longevity!)
"Format shifting" from bits to sound waves.... this is stupid. They format shifted from the CD to RADIO WAVES. And they say nothing. Show me the exception.
if you were only downloading music, your claims def. sound very off base. If you were downloading software, and are not a software developer yourself (i am) then, yes, it can be bad. But for music only, no, downloading music does not have anything to do with malware. (aimed at the readers of this comment) Try not to be such a click addict
says the anonymous coward. you're hardly wanted in this discussion.
maybe people look at you funny because you use the word "malware" when you're talking about downloading mp3s. You don't sound very well informed about the topic, and perhaps a bit... er.... biased. Perhaps you make money by selling intangibles at massive markup, giving undeserved economic clout to degenerates IMNSHO?
To clarify for some,
Your examples infer real-time computational needs. If we decided to render these types of results at fixed-intervals and show results up to some time that they are stale... then you are pretty much describing google and we can do this. It would be useful to have a 'google' in ones pocket however, if only to index live feeds of your life taken by a "personal server" (aka cell phone) and available to the user for recall purposes.
P.s. for the security minded it would be best if it had incredible security, backups and fast wipes too, for I correctly think having all your life accessible via subpoena or accident is a bad idea. Fwiw, and somewhat topical, a lot of technology is social bound, and doesn't have much to do with what we could do...