- useless if you get an incoming call or want to make an outbound call
that's a shortcoming of your carrier not google maps.
I'm not denying that. I'm saying that's a limitation of using Google Maps/Navigation over a standalone GPS.
- no way of storing favorites
when the nav app starts, you have several options for inputing an address,
1. speak it
Over the engine noise and radio that's already going. The STT engine is usually pretty good, but in my truck I have to repeat myself a number of times especially when I have long addresses to enter and words that can easily confuse it (Ridgeway Ave becomes Ridge Way).
2. type it
See my earlier comment on the input screen being very small and the UI not as responsive as a dedicated GPS
3. from contacts 4. starred items 5. recent (list the last 10+ destinations)
Those are good suggestions. I'll try the starred items and adding more addresses as contacts, though generally if I'm going somewhere I know how to get there. I'll try that sometime with the traffic and see if it'll give me a better route.
My Droid does have a windshield mount, but its navigation UI needs a lot of help:
- small buttons - not as responsive as tomtom - no way to route around traffic delays - requires a data connection (yes, there are a few places in the US that doesn't have good data service) - useless if you get an incoming call or want to make an outbound call - no way of storing favorites (with three taps I can find my way home or get a list of favorites on my tomtom)
That's not to say that Google Navigation is really poor. I like having constantly updated maps and more timely traffic information, and I'd prefer to have only one device on my windshield, but until those above problems get fixed, I'll keep my TomTom.
No, just an excuse to stay away from the Droid X. The Droid line has a number of phones from different manufacturers that make it. The original Droid and Droid X are made by Motorola while the Droid Incredible is made by HTC. Only the Droid X (so far) suffers from this problem that will likely have a way around it soon enough.
In a grocery store that would be called a loss leader. Have something that you make no money on, but build up enough interest in something else that they'll buy it for enough money to make up the loss and then some.
In this case, you basically give away the CDs and the RIAA screws them over. But in the meantime, they're making a shedload of money from touring.
I don't want to deny the RIAA is screwing them over, but without the RIAA, they wouldn't be on tour to make the money.
Me, I'll just keep paying for a Magnatune subscription. Not all of their artists tour this area.
I'll add for you that Amazon is paying the USPS for delivery. In that respect, they are paying to support services. Why should Amazon pay for police or firefighters in states where they don't have a business presence?
Installing OpenWRT on a Linksys router likely voids the warranty in the same way that installing an unofficial ROM on an Android device does. Yea you might brick it, but those are the chances you take to get the extra functionality. Don't like it? Wait for an official release.
In the case of Apple, they're actively preventing jailbreakers from working. Seems a bit different to me.
There's plenty of unofficial ROMs you can install that have the additional functionality. In that way, it's more open than most other phones on the market.
Show me how UPS or FedEx can afford to send a letter across the country for $.44
What part of "and the internet" did you not comprehend? I don't send letters anymore. Or resumes. Or even checks to pay my bills. I use the internet because it costs $0.00
Yeah, because all your purchases from Amazon or Netflix or eBay use the Internet. You still didn't answer how UPS or FedEx can send a letter across the country for $.44.
The Acela line in the northeast is in heavy use and ridership has been increasing
Yes because it's serving the heavily populated Northeast City (megalopolis) along I-95, but that is one of the RARE profitable lines. Lines running from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, or Pittsburgh to Cincinnati, or Cincinnati to Indianapolis, or..... are not profitable due to lack of passengers. These lines are losing hand over fist and should be ended.
Or perhaps Acela should be extended to more of the country to get usage up? There seems to be a lot of interest for high speed rail in the west, and I'm sure there's interest in the south.
But because Amtrak is run by politicians not accountants, the lines keep running and Amtrak is deep in debt. It's a foolish way to run things. It's a waste of taxpayer earnings and labor. ----- I think Amtrak should be ended and turn-over passenger rail to private companies again (CSX, Conrail, etc). They'll make it profitable again but not being so stupid as to run lines that almost-nobody is using.
Sorry, you didn't answer my other question about how profitable Amtrak would be if they had a $12 billion budget. How profitable various systems are is hidden by how much they actually get in the back end from the government. Privatizing Amtrak won't solve the problem at all.
Yeah if you ignore FedEx and UPS and the Intenet, all of which provide me with better, faster, cheaper mailing service than the Government service does. So yeah you're right. USPS is the best in the world - if you ignore the ones that are better.;-).
Show me how UPS or FedEx can afford to send a letter across the country for $.44. Yeah, didn't think so. And don't get me started on the "but UPS and FedEx can't deliver first class mail". Even if they could, they can't do it for $.44.
A private company would eliminate unprofitable lines that lack customers (like how Circuit City disappeared), but government keeps foolishly running lines that are losing money. That needs to stop. ----- Also in my personal opinion, Amtrak's time has passed. Passenger trains are an old 1800s technology that should disappear like the wagon train disappeared, other than for limited usage in cities (metros, subways, etc). Trains are fine in heavily-populated cities, but when going long distance most people would rather travel by car or bus, not train. Let's give them want THEY desire, rather than run mostly-empty trains that they don't desire..
You're detached from reality. The Acela line in the northeast is in heavy use and ridership has been increasing over the past few years, with 27 million people riding it in 2009. It's be in more use if Amtrak was able to get priority on the lines, but private industry owns the rail lines and thus Amtrak has to work around CSX's schedule to get you from point A to B. As for amount of money, the FAA got $14 billion dollars in 2009. Amtrak got $2 billion. How expensive do you think airflight would be if the FAA had to be self-funded? How well could Amtrak do if they got $14 billion?
I put my computer in hibernate or sleep modes before I go to bed, but they're in a different room than my bedroom, and there's no TVs or computers in the bedroom. My home server is two floors below, so it's unlikely that will wake me up at all.
I need to have my phone with me, but I usually plug it in and then put it under something to block any charging or incoming e-mail lights. Otherwise, the shades are drawn, and the only electrical device in the room is a squeezebox boom with the brightness turned way down and playing quiet music.
Uhm, right. Whatever. I'll throw out these thoughts for you and then you're not getting responded to:
- How about all the editors that spent 8 years hounding Bill Clinton, publishing every single detail of his life? How about the editors that gave the teabaggers any sense of credibility while their numbers are much smaller than anti-war/anti-WTO protesters?
- Nixon started the 'don't blame us, it was the MEDIA!' meme. It's continued to the point that there's this belief that the left controls the media (as you claim) while prominent conservatives have been saying for at least 10 years that it's all a load of crap.
But you go on thinking you're fighting the good fight while you're actually the source of the problem.
You've identified the problem, but not the cause. Saying that the media is against you is incorrect (while news reporters may or may not swing to the left, editors and publishers by and large swing to the right in likely the same proportion).
One side decided that "the media is against us!" (see Nixon) and thus begins 40 years of breaking down the credibility of a media that was by-and-large credible.
We're at the point now where places like the Boston Globe and NYT do issue retractions and apologies (albeit not on a front page) while TV organizations like Fox almost never do, and private bloggers never do. If bloggers and self-interested media isn't interested in owning up to their mistakes, why should I consider what they say to be correct?
Information needs to be credible, otherwise experts are ignored and the population is left not knowing what is true.
On the right, take Evolution, Global Warming, Fiat Currency/Fed, and the 2004 elections. On the left is Vaccines and 9/11. So much information was thrown out at once that the real facts gets buried. Those who know the 'facts' only know what they know because they never bothered to consult actual experts. 30 years ago, most of these issues were pretty much solved. Evolution wasn't questioned, everyone was vaccinated.
The increase of people who have hours of AM radio to fill or in need of pay-per-click ads need content. Their content can either be generated by sites that occasionally strive for balance or have politically-neutral content (/. or fark at times) or just go full tilt and tell people what they think they want their audience to hear (most of AM radio and Fox).
In the past, editors with actual credibility were the gatekeepers to make sure that the news was even or at least consistent. These days anyone that can use a spell checker (and that's not even a requirement) can suddenly be a journalist and have a soapbox that reaches around the world. While there's a lot more sources of information to choose from, we as a population aren't geared to get our information from 5-10 different sources and determine what is true (see above for examples).
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- useless if you get an incoming call or want to make an outbound call
that's a shortcoming of your carrier not google maps.
I'm not denying that. I'm saying that's a limitation of using Google Maps/Navigation over a standalone GPS.
- no way of storing favorites
when the nav app starts, you have several options for inputing an address,
1. speak it
Over the engine noise and radio that's already going. The STT engine is usually pretty good, but in my truck I have to repeat myself a number of times especially when I have long addresses to enter and words that can easily confuse it (Ridgeway Ave becomes Ridge Way).
2. type it
See my earlier comment on the input screen being very small and the UI not as responsive as a dedicated GPS
3. from contacts
4. starred items
5. recent (list the last 10+ destinations)
Those are good suggestions. I'll try the starred items and adding more addresses as contacts, though generally if I'm going somewhere I know how to get there. I'll try that sometime with the traffic and see if it'll give me a better route.
My Droid does have a windshield mount, but its navigation UI needs a lot of help:
- small buttons
- not as responsive as tomtom
- no way to route around traffic delays
- requires a data connection (yes, there are a few places in the US that doesn't have good data service)
- useless if you get an incoming call or want to make an outbound call
- no way of storing favorites (with three taps I can find my way home or get a list of favorites on my tomtom)
That's not to say that Google Navigation is really poor. I like having constantly updated maps and more timely traffic information, and I'd prefer to have only one device on my windshield, but until those above problems get fixed, I'll keep my TomTom.
I forgot about the Eris.
No, just an excuse to stay away from the Droid X. The Droid line has a number of phones from different manufacturers that make it. The original Droid and Droid X are made by Motorola while the Droid Incredible is made by HTC. Only the Droid X (so far) suffers from this problem that will likely have a way around it soon enough.
In a grocery store that would be called a loss leader. Have something that you make no money on, but build up enough interest in something else that they'll buy it for enough money to make up the loss and then some.
In this case, you basically give away the CDs and the RIAA screws them over. But in the meantime, they're making a shedload of money from touring.
I don't want to deny the RIAA is screwing them over, but without the RIAA, they wouldn't be on tour to make the money.
Me, I'll just keep paying for a Magnatune subscription. Not all of their artists tour this area.
I've got the perfect title: Hear me if you can
Uhm, they are paying for Saturday delivery. By paying the USPS for delivery.
What nitwit made this insightful?
Amazon is paying the USPS for delivery. As a customer, Amazon has every right to request that they not cancel Saturday delivery.
I'll add for you that Amazon is paying the USPS for delivery. In that respect, they are paying to support services. Why should Amazon pay for police or firefighters in states where they don't have a business presence?
An unofficial ROM != jailbreak.
Installing OpenWRT on a Linksys router likely voids the warranty in the same way that installing an unofficial ROM on an Android device does. Yea you might brick it, but those are the chances you take to get the extra functionality. Don't like it? Wait for an official release.
In the case of Apple, they're actively preventing jailbreakers from working. Seems a bit different to me.
There's plenty of unofficial ROMs you can install that have the additional functionality. In that way, it's more open than most other phones on the market.
At least it's not gizmodo.
Show me how UPS or FedEx can afford to send a letter across the country for $.44
What part of "and the internet" did you not comprehend? I don't send letters anymore. Or resumes. Or even checks to pay my bills. I use the internet because it costs $0.00
Yeah, because all your purchases from Amazon or Netflix or eBay use the Internet. You still didn't answer how UPS or FedEx can send a letter across the country for $.44.
The Acela line in the northeast is in heavy use and ridership has been increasing
Yes because it's serving the heavily populated Northeast City (megalopolis) along I-95, but that is one of the RARE profitable lines. Lines running from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh, or Pittsburgh to Cincinnati, or Cincinnati to Indianapolis, or..... are not profitable due to lack of passengers. These lines are losing hand over fist and should be ended.
Or perhaps Acela should be extended to more of the country to get usage up? There seems to be a lot of interest for high speed rail in the west, and I'm sure there's interest in the south.
But because Amtrak is run by politicians not accountants, the lines keep running and Amtrak is deep in debt. It's a foolish way to run things. It's a waste of taxpayer earnings and labor. ----- I think Amtrak should be ended and turn-over passenger rail to private companies again (CSX, Conrail, etc). They'll make it profitable again but not being so stupid as to run lines that almost-nobody is using.
Sorry, you didn't answer my other question about how profitable Amtrak would be if they had a $12 billion budget. How profitable various systems are is hidden by how much they actually get in the back end from the government. Privatizing Amtrak won't solve the problem at all.
And learn how to quote, for crying out loud.
That would be true if DHS started with good intentions. It didn't.
Yeah if you ignore FedEx and UPS and the Intenet, all of which provide me with better, faster, cheaper mailing service than the Government service does. So yeah you're right. USPS is the best in the world - if you ignore the ones that are better. ;-) .
Show me how UPS or FedEx can afford to send a letter across the country for $.44. Yeah, didn't think so. And don't get me started on the "but UPS and FedEx can't deliver first class mail". Even if they could, they can't do it for $.44.
A private company would eliminate unprofitable lines that lack customers (like how Circuit City disappeared), but government keeps foolishly running lines that are losing money. That needs to stop. ----- Also in my personal opinion, Amtrak's time has passed. Passenger trains are an old 1800s technology that should disappear like the wagon train disappeared, other than for limited usage in cities (metros, subways, etc). Trains are fine in heavily-populated cities, but when going long distance most people would rather travel by car or bus, not train. Let's give them want THEY desire, rather than run mostly-empty trains that they don't desire. .
You're detached from reality. The Acela line in the northeast is in heavy use and ridership has been increasing over the past few years, with 27 million people riding it in 2009. It's be in more use if Amtrak was able to get priority on the lines, but private industry owns the rail lines and thus Amtrak has to work around CSX's schedule to get you from point A to B. As for amount of money, the FAA got $14 billion dollars in 2009. Amtrak got $2 billion. How expensive do you think airflight would be if the FAA had to be self-funded? How well could Amtrak do if they got $14 billion?
IIRC, this is a UK thing. Google is failing me, but I'm sure someone will be able to provide a link.
Maybe a Droid isn't so bad after all despite its shortcomings in usability.
Wait, what?
I put my computer in hibernate or sleep modes before I go to bed, but they're in a different room than my bedroom, and there's no TVs or computers in the bedroom. My home server is two floors below, so it's unlikely that will wake me up at all.
I need to have my phone with me, but I usually plug it in and then put it under something to block any charging or incoming e-mail lights. Otherwise, the shades are drawn, and the only electrical device in the room is a squeezebox boom with the brightness turned way down and playing quiet music.
Uhm, right. Whatever. I'll throw out these thoughts for you and then you're not getting responded to:
- How about all the editors that spent 8 years hounding Bill Clinton, publishing every single detail of his life? How about the editors that gave the teabaggers any sense of credibility while their numbers are much smaller than anti-war/anti-WTO protesters?
- Nixon started the 'don't blame us, it was the MEDIA!' meme. It's continued to the point that there's this belief that the left controls the media (as you claim) while prominent conservatives have been saying for at least 10 years that it's all a load of crap.
But you go on thinking you're fighting the good fight while you're actually the source of the problem.
You've identified the problem, but not the cause. Saying that the media is against you is incorrect (while news reporters may or may not swing to the left, editors and publishers by and large swing to the right in likely the same proportion).
One side decided that "the media is against us!" (see Nixon) and thus begins 40 years of breaking down the credibility of a media that was by-and-large credible.
We're at the point now where places like the Boston Globe and NYT do issue retractions and apologies (albeit not on a front page) while TV organizations like Fox almost never do, and private bloggers never do. If bloggers and self-interested media isn't interested in owning up to their mistakes, why should I consider what they say to be correct?
Authoritarian, yes, but authoritarian at the news level, not the political or governmental level.
There is no single truth perhaps, but shouting "tech the controversy" when there is no controversy is not really helping the country as a whole.
Questioning results? Good. Throwing out results because they don't meet your beliefs? Bad.
Information needs to be credible, otherwise experts are ignored and the population is left not knowing what is true.
On the right, take Evolution, Global Warming, Fiat Currency/Fed, and the 2004 elections. On the left is Vaccines and 9/11. So much information was thrown out at once that the real facts gets buried. Those who know the 'facts' only know what they know because they never bothered to consult actual experts. 30 years ago, most of these issues were pretty much solved. Evolution wasn't questioned, everyone was vaccinated.
The increase of people who have hours of AM radio to fill or in need of pay-per-click ads need content. Their content can either be generated by sites that occasionally strive for balance or have politically-neutral content (/. or fark at times) or just go full tilt and tell people what they think they want their audience to hear (most of AM radio and Fox).
In the past, editors with actual credibility were the gatekeepers to make sure that the news was even or at least consistent. These days anyone that can use a spell checker (and that's not even a requirement) can suddenly be a journalist and have a soapbox that reaches around the world. While there's a lot more sources of information to choose from, we as a population aren't geared to get our information from 5-10 different sources and determine what is true (see above for examples).
That doesn't mean the prices are zero (yet), it merely means that no one wants to buy the houses at the price offered.
I got a kit from Netgate that has the board, case, and choice of wireless card for about $300. It's expensive, but so far it's worth it.