Yep. I can't browse anymore without adblocking... some sites are just unreadable.
Firefox is now available for Android, and you can use any of the thousands of Ad-Ons, just like you do on your desktop... include Adblock Plus:)
It is still a rather early product, so its rendering is a bit slower and clunkier than the stock browser, but it is improving with each update. Also, no support for Flash yet (which to many is no big deal). You might want to check it out!
Great- just what I would want in my next car, a non-changeable link to a totally proprietary technology that also will not work unless in a cell/data carrier area.
I was already pissed that my existing car had an ipod-only connection, and like most vehicles, the software is never updated. And of course, it only works with CERTAIN models of the iPod and nothing newer or older.
MarsterCard and VISA don't ALSO have possible access to your phone records, your Email, your detailed location history, your search history, and any number of other metrics.
One who is not somewhat paranoid, is just irresponsible. Just because a company has some information, doesn't mean one should shovel tons more to them.
If you think THAT is crazy, look at the first, top-rated comment! Evernote? Yeah, like I want to give some third-party, "cloud" service access to all my stuff all the time? Geesh, even Google is bad enough now. And if you think I am going to use my phone to pay for stuff with Google Wallet.... think again!
I use an HP Photosmart C6180 "all in one" along with gscan2pdf for most stuff. It works surprisingly well. Duplex is a bit painful, though. I usually scan once a year, in January, everything for the year, after doing my taxes.
But sometimes I cheat and take some of it to work. It costs nothing to "scan to pdf/Email" on the leased Xerox Document Centre's, they make shockingly small but very readable outputs, and are SCARY FAST compared to anything else I have ever touched. I just spend 5 minutes of my own time on it, and can knock out many, many hundreds of pages.
One option might be to see if your local FedEx Office or other type copy store has any Document Centres in their rental lineup.
What are they talking about? The article says absolutely nothing about differentiating hand-rolled cigarettes, nothing about tobacco, and nothing about marijuana.
Unless my life depended on it, I doubt I could ever train myself to use 32+ memorized "chords" to type all of the letters and numbers. Plus, you have to be able to backspace, space, and other stuff too. And any single-finger "chord" could be easily mistaken for trying to select something on the screen, or moving a cursor, etc. Sounds like it would need lots of rules, timing limitations, etc... really complex.
I could be wrong, but in this case, I don't think I will ever know:)
Maybe they are just LTE and not LTE Advanced? I don't know. Another article said they would use LTE for the data and CDMA for the voice until 2013, when they roll out "Advanced" and also start using VoLTE. So confusing:)
My first experience with 4G was early last year in Richmond on Sprint. Indeed it was fast, but I could almost watch my battery disappear! (OK, it wasn't THAT bad, but I estimated it cut my battery life in half). It was very handy to have the Android widget right on the first page to toggle 4G on/off, so it would shift back into the much more battery-friendly 3G.
I do wish battery technology was on the same curve as CPU technology has been. Imagine- we could have super-smart phones that were twice as fast as now, but running on one charge a week or less. (Or perhaps we could finally have some good electric car range WITH great performance at the same time). Oh well, maybe in "5 to 7 years" or whatever the standard is for anything we still can't have...
You could also use Mageia or Suse. Mandrake/Mandriva and Suse were always the best KDE distros, and I personally think Mandrake/Mandriva had the best KDE implementation. A lot of people have great hopes for Mageia right now..... that community is really excited waiting for the upcoming Mageia 2 release, which will be the first real break from Mandriva.
Apparently you have nothing intelligent to offer to Slashdot. Goes right along with your "Anonymous Coward" status. Please go pester someone else with your insecure, petty comments. Or, perhaps it is past your bedtime, and your parents should just put you to bed...
I am not advocating preventing Apple from having such a platform. But, based on experience, it is not uncommon that such solutions are then forced on people by institutions that "pick" such a solution as their standard requirement.
And once that is done in many organizations, there is little to no incentive for publishers to provide any other format- creating a lock-in (an effective monopoly) for Apple.
Example- school "A" might look at what Apple offers and then choose to require students to use it. That takes away freedom from ALL the students at that school. Especially disturbing when the school doesn't supply and support that platform to all the students. A better approach would be for the school to evaluate a set of books and ask the publisher to provide it in formats can can be used on various types of equipment, including Apple equipment. It isn't Apple's responsibility to do that, nor would I expect that.
It was probably modded "Insightful" by people who want to see things like schools and colleges require textbooks in OPEN FORMATS that can be read on any platform.
This has nothing to do with Android or any other "gang" being lazy. Do you think Apple would applaud any "solution" not designed by them that would allow the public to read such books on something not controlled by Apple? Or do you think Apple would *sue* other companies for patent infringement, perhaps DCMA stuff, or whatever else they can come up with?
So how does this "iBooks 2" work on non-iOS devices? Android? Linux? MS-Windows?
I have nothing against digital books, but if they are going to be locked up on a single platform, this is not a good thing (especially for educational uses).
We can't know for SURE, but my 2000 model year, carbureted motorcycle starting having problems not long after E90 became mandatory in this area. And a year later, after spending LOTS of money, in three different shops, nobody could seem to fix it. My conclusion is the alcohol ruined the carburetor. A year later, I got rid of it.
So since it does little to nothing for the environment, costs as much or more, raises food prices, attracts water into gas, and sometimes RUINS older engines, can we finally get rid of it???
That turns the clock back even more. No animations, no music, no pop-up junk on the side for search results (instant previews or whatever they call it), etc.
I think that Google might need to offer new stuff to attract the type of person that finds the likes of Bing amusing. Having choice is a good thing. However, forcing [yet more] eye candy on people is going to alienate those (like me, who are already irritated) who just want minimal, fast, simple. Something that isn't distracting, irritating, CPU loading, complex, and doesn't use mouseovers or javascript. Personally, I would even prefer a new domain for it, like cgoogle.com so it can be easily whitelisted.
Yeah, I guess the concept of privacy just has no meaning to modern society. One could/would never be prejudged by those with access to such information, or be a victim of unfair discrimination. There could never be misleading or incorrect information about someone in such a system.
Very good point! But just about any entity that deals with Medicare is a covered entity. And if even one of those covered entities submits PHI to Google, directly, then they would have to obtain a "HIPAA Business Associate" contract with Google.
Which doesn't make Google a covered entity, but does start to throw heavy responsibility and possible regulations their way. Of course, as with lots of HIPAA stuff, it is open to interpretation. That said, I am sure Google had an army of lawyers looking at this stuff.
But I did want to directly refute the original poster- it doesn't matter if the company you are dealing with generated the information. Even information YOU supply to them (a covered entity, or one under a business associate agreement) becomes PHI (protected health information).
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Yep. I can't browse anymore without adblocking... some sites are just unreadable.
Firefox is now available for Android, and you can use any of the thousands of Ad-Ons, just like you do on your desktop... include Adblock Plus :)
It is still a rather early product, so its rendering is a bit slower and clunkier than the stock browser, but it is improving with each update. Also, no support for Flash yet (which to many is no big deal). You might want to check it out!
Great- just what I would want in my next car, a non-changeable link to a totally proprietary technology that also will not work unless in a cell/data carrier area.
I was already pissed that my existing car had an ipod-only connection, and like most vehicles, the software is never updated. And of course, it only works with CERTAIN models of the iPod and nothing newer or older.
I have enough lock-in in my life already!
MarsterCard and VISA don't ALSO have possible access to your phone records, your Email, your detailed location history, your search history, and any number of other metrics.
One who is not somewhat paranoid, is just irresponsible. Just because a company has some information, doesn't mean one should shovel tons more to them.
If you think THAT is crazy, look at the first, top-rated comment! Evernote? Yeah, like I want to give some third-party, "cloud" service access to all my stuff all the time? Geesh, even Google is bad enough now. And if you think I am going to use my phone to pay for stuff with Google Wallet.... think again!
I use an HP Photosmart C6180 "all in one" along with gscan2pdf for most stuff. It works surprisingly well. Duplex is a bit painful, though. I usually scan once a year, in January, everything for the year, after doing my taxes.
But sometimes I cheat and take some of it to work. It costs nothing to "scan to pdf/Email" on the leased Xerox Document Centre's, they make shockingly small but very readable outputs, and are SCARY FAST compared to anything else I have ever touched. I just spend 5 minutes of my own time on it, and can knock out many, many hundreds of pages.
One option might be to see if your local FedEx Office or other type copy store has any Document Centres in their rental lineup.
What are they talking about? The article says absolutely nothing about differentiating hand-rolled cigarettes, nothing about tobacco, and nothing about marijuana.
Unless my life depended on it, I doubt I could ever train myself to use 32+ memorized "chords" to type all of the letters and numbers. Plus, you have to be able to backspace, space, and other stuff too. And any single-finger "chord" could be easily mistaken for trying to select something on the screen, or moving a cursor, etc. Sounds like it would need lots of rules, timing limitations, etc... really complex.
I could be wrong, but in this case, I don't think I will ever know :)
>"by the time we have LTE Advanced on our phones, the radio chips will have had a generation or two of power reductions"
Don't be TOO sure. Sprint will be the first with LTE Advanced, and they are already starting to roll it out. They already have phones to go with it: http://techcrunch.com/2012/01/09/sprint-unveils-first-lte-phones-the-galaxy-nexus-and-the-lg-viper/
Maybe they are just LTE and not LTE Advanced? I don't know. Another article said they would use LTE for the data and CDMA for the voice until 2013, when they roll out "Advanced" and also start using VoLTE. So confusing :)
And since none of those you listed have 4G options, imagine how bad your situation WOULD be if they were! You will have to carry a power backpack!
My first experience with 4G was early last year in Richmond on Sprint. Indeed it was fast, but I could almost watch my battery disappear! (OK, it wasn't THAT bad, but I estimated it cut my battery life in half). It was very handy to have the Android widget right on the first page to toggle 4G on/off, so it would shift back into the much more battery-friendly 3G.
I do wish battery technology was on the same curve as CPU technology has been. Imagine- we could have super-smart phones that were twice as fast as now, but running on one charge a week or less. (Or perhaps we could finally have some good electric car range WITH great performance at the same time). Oh well, maybe in "5 to 7 years" or whatever the standard is for anything we still can't have...
You could also use Mageia or Suse. Mandrake/Mandriva and Suse were always the best KDE distros, and I personally think Mandrake/Mandriva had the best KDE implementation. A lot of people have great hopes for Mageia right now..... that community is really excited waiting for the upcoming Mageia 2 release, which will be the first real break from Mandriva.
Thanks for the info.
Apparently you have nothing intelligent to offer to Slashdot. Goes right along with your "Anonymous Coward" status. Please go pester someone else with your insecure, petty comments. Or, perhaps it is past your bedtime, and your parents should just put you to bed...
I am not advocating preventing Apple from having such a platform. But, based on experience, it is not uncommon that such solutions are then forced on people by institutions that "pick" such a solution as their standard requirement.
And once that is done in many organizations, there is little to no incentive for publishers to provide any other format- creating a lock-in (an effective monopoly) for Apple.
Example- school "A" might look at what Apple offers and then choose to require students to use it. That takes away freedom from ALL the students at that school. Especially disturbing when the school doesn't supply and support that platform to all the students. A better approach would be for the school to evaluate a set of books and ask the publisher to provide it in formats can can be used on various types of equipment, including Apple equipment. It isn't Apple's responsibility to do that, nor would I expect that.
It was probably modded "Insightful" by people who want to see things like schools and colleges require textbooks in OPEN FORMATS that can be read on any platform.
This has nothing to do with Android or any other "gang" being lazy. Do you think Apple would applaud any "solution" not designed by them that would allow the public to read such books on something not controlled by Apple? Or do you think Apple would *sue* other companies for patent infringement, perhaps DCMA stuff, or whatever else they can come up with?
So how does this "iBooks 2" work on non-iOS devices? Android? Linux? MS-Windows?
I have nothing against digital books, but if they are going to be locked up on a single platform, this is not a good thing (especially for educational uses).
Well, it is 2012 now.... that is 12 years after 2000! Hard to believe sometimes, since in some ways it seems just like a short time ago.
We can't know for SURE, but my 2000 model year, carbureted motorcycle starting having problems not long after E90 became mandatory in this area. And a year later, after spending LOTS of money, in three different shops, nobody could seem to fix it. My conclusion is the alcohol ruined the carburetor. A year later, I got rid of it.
So since it does little to nothing for the environment, costs as much or more, raises food prices, attracts water into gas, and sometimes RUINS older engines, can we finally get rid of it???
>"I would have paid $12,500 more for gasoline over that same time period. So therefore, I have saved $12,500 so far."
Is that with or without the expense of replacing the batteries?
Indeed. About as meaningless as postings from anonymous cowards?
Oh, right you are, anonymous coward. I *must* be the only one, since others have already agreed and modded the posting to the max now.
You are a troll.
Google would do well to offer something like-
http://classic.google.com/
That turns the clock back even more. No animations, no music, no pop-up junk on the side for search results (instant previews or whatever they call it), etc.
I think that Google might need to offer new stuff to attract the type of person that finds the likes of Bing amusing. Having choice is a good thing. However, forcing [yet more] eye candy on people is going to alienate those (like me, who are already irritated) who just want minimal, fast, simple. Something that isn't distracting, irritating, CPU loading, complex, and doesn't use mouseovers or javascript. Personally, I would even prefer a new domain for it, like cgoogle.com so it can be easily whitelisted.
>"In short, the benefits would be astronomical."
Yeah, I guess the concept of privacy just has no meaning to modern society. One could/would never be prejudged by those with access to such information, or be a victim of unfair discrimination. There could never be misleading or incorrect information about someone in such a system.
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2599590&cid=38558488
Very good point!
But just about any entity that deals with Medicare is a covered entity. And if even one of those covered entities submits PHI to Google, directly, then they would have to obtain a "HIPAA Business Associate" contract with Google.
http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/privacy/hipaa/understanding/coveredentities/businessassociates.html
Which doesn't make Google a covered entity, but does start to throw heavy responsibility and possible regulations their way. Of course, as with lots of HIPAA stuff, it is open to interpretation. That said, I am sure Google had an army of lawyers looking at this stuff.
But I did want to directly refute the original poster- it doesn't matter if the company you are dealing with generated the information. Even information YOU supply to them (a covered entity, or one under a business associate agreement) becomes PHI (protected health information).