Considering the fact that you can put any application you want on the market, without fear of rejection...
I hate to be pedantic, but I'm in fact helping your case when I inform you that you don't even need to put it on the Marketplace if you choose; you can just point the browser to an.apk file hosted somewhere and the phone will offer to download and install it without problems (after you confirm you really want to do so).
The train thing should be easy enough, since train tracks don't move around and there aren't that many of them. A small table of local vectors should cover that, or make it server based.
Well, until you're riding a train that runs close enough to roads such that GPS doesn't have the resolution to tell the difference reliably enough to justify shutting off the phone. Or, for that matter, if you're riding a tram/light rail system that at times has the rails IN regular roads, directly in or alongside traffic.
The passenger thing would be more difficult or possibly impossible.
Not to mention bus systems, taxis, hotel/airport/etc shuttles...
The difference can be attributed to the resilient and aggressive botnet market as well as a higher volume of global spam that has ensued since the beginning of the credit crisis toward the end of 2008.
Um... no, those two facts can perhaps help to explain the overall increase in spam, globally. They do absolutely nothing to explain why Idaho, specifically, has jumped up the list of being spammed more often per capita.
As the GP said, economy. Rough estimate (or wild exaggeration), you can crank out a hundred or so CDs for the cost of making one ROM cartridge. And CDs stuffed around ten times the maximum data on an N64 cart for that reduced cost, too.
And as was quite obvious from that generation of consoles, gamers and developers were very gladly willing to suffer loading screens for both those advantages. As much as I'm a dirty hippy Nintendo fanboy, the access time argument they put forth didn't stand the tests of time or public opinion.
Brilliant! Because what I've always wanted in a video game controller is to take the elegant simplicity of the Wii Remote, lag it more, make all the buttons non-tactile, make it incredibly more fragile, have phone calls come in and screw up my game, and sell it for ten to twenty times the cost! Per controller!
Unless Amazon has some explosive charges tucked away in the Kindle, all it'll take is one geek friend of the thief to take it apart and do whatever unbricking is needed to make it a not-useless device again.
The sensitive data itself is even stored on an outside server so that even Facebook cannot access it.
(emphasis mine)
So... um... if the data's not stored on Facebook, why is Facebook a part of this equation? Why not just advertise a generic centralized cryptographic system they're running and apply it generally? Or do they really need the publicity that badly that they're just whoring on Facebook's privacy issues?
Come to think of it, if Facebook isn't even involved, why even bother with a central server? I'd think it'd be far more effective to make an interface to some sort of distributed network of encryption keys or whatnot. I mean, it probably wouldn't be perfect, but I'm sure you could get some pretty good privacy out of the deal.
Unfortunately, no matter how safe, clean, or whatnot of the design, you still need to get over that first hurdle of convincing the people to allow the first one to be built in the area. Then there might be less resistance to the next.
A point well taken, but there's a degree of normalcy shift you need to expect when you live around the corner from Bungie.
Er... because Bungie is the real-world game company analogue of ESPN's SportsCenter ads? Where you have Halo characters just walking the streets at random, always carrying around massive weapons and other props from Halo, and every cop on the street should have intricate, in-depth knowledge of the Halo series and all the weapons therein (as well as how they compare to similar-but-different weapons in the real world)?
I have this feeling that around Bungie's headquarters, it's pretty well the same as any other software office house. People walk in, work, and leave later in the day. I mean, I develop software for a printer company, and I don't walk in and out of work every day comedically nearly-mummified in tractor-fed printer paper.
OK, killing I can see, but burning? How are they going to light the matches or activate the Zippo? You can't rub two sticks together if all you have are hooves.
Mrs. O'Leary would like to have a word with you...
What about putting the advertisements on the pedestrians' shirts? Then we might remember them better AND be able to run down walking advertisements with satisfyingly bloody results!
"In the Shirt Test, the test subjects did not fare quite so well in the game portion of the test, score-wise. What they seemed to prefer to do is hit pedestrians with advertisements on their shirts, back over them, and repeat the process until either the pedestrian was removed from the game or time ran out. However, the subjects DID remember the ads better, if not only in the sense of, as one subject put it, the satisfaction of hitting 'that stupid-looking tool with the Coca-Cola shirt on'. Further research is needed. Here's our grant application."
FlashLite is, in effect, Flash for embedded devices (so, yes, lite-er). I do know that FL3 can only take ActionScript 2 for code, so, yeah, probably only in the Flash 8 range.
My first test of the new version was to hit up one of the Homestar Runner main pages, the one that's entirely blurred as if you needed better glasses. Or, more to the point, as if they were using the Gaussian blur filter in Flash, which didn't exist in Flash 8, and thus didn't work on the latest version of Internet Channel. Hrmph.
Which I guess isn't that much an issue, I sort of have a computer for my web browsing. And a laptop. And a cell phone. And...
This is 2009, dammit! Why do the media companies keep wanting us to go back to 1984?!?!
Because they had a lot more control back then than they do now, and are quite convinced they can get back to the good ol' days the good ol' fashioned way: Buying it.
The phones will just crank their output power to the max in a selfless attempt to communicate [...]
Hopeless attempt. Hopeless.
Well, okay, technically, I suppose they WOULD be doing it selflessly, as, lacking sentience or life, most philosophers would agree that they also lack any real traditional sense of "self" (obviously, for the sake of this argument, disregarding philosophies and religions imparting a sort of "spirit" to all things, living or not), but I still don't think that's the word you're looking for. Not until they make self-aware phones which can then disregard themselves for the betterment of others, and assuming that increasing transmission power to the sacrifice of its own battery is counted among "betterment".
Which I think Apple and Google are racing towards, actually.
It is quite usable with the full freedoms of the GPL. Though it would most likely take a decent amount of porting to convert Objective-C to Java*, I could take the code they provide, modify it, and re-release it for the Android Marketplace, and I could release it for free or for a price. A Windows Mobile programmer could port it to their platform. A Palm Pre programmer could port it to their platform. They could do it all without even the slightest restriction from Apple or the iPhone. Another iPhone programmer could modify it and re-release it, even.
Apple making restrictions on their platform does not in any way make restrictions on other platforms. We could take, modify, and port it if we wanted (and didn't instead just directly port from the original XPilot source). That is in the spirit of the GPL. The fact that the author chose to make it for and release it on a platform with restrictions doesn't change that.
*: To the purists: Fine, fine, to whatever Android's specific Java-lookalike is.
No, what they meant by "hot markets" was that, for instance, one of the stores was in Scottsdale, AZ. Pretty much anywhere in Arizona is ridiculously hot, year-round.
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Considering the fact that you can put any application you want on the market, without fear of rejection...
I hate to be pedantic, but I'm in fact helping your case when I inform you that you don't even need to put it on the Marketplace if you choose; you can just point the browser to an .apk file hosted somewhere and the phone will offer to download and install it without problems (after you confirm you really want to do so).
You're posting on slashdot with a UID less than 890721. No need to restate an obvious truth.
So... extrapolating slightly, I must be a couple thousand years old and weigh something in the range of several hundred tons! Sweet!
A NASA probe found that cosmic ray intensities in 2009 had increased by almost 20 percent beyond anything seen in the past 50 years.
Well, crap, then. Maybe we actually SHOULD all get out our tinfoil hats.
Actually, lead foil might be a better bet...
The train thing should be easy enough, since train tracks don't move around and there aren't that many of them. A small table of local vectors should cover that, or make it server based.
Well, until you're riding a train that runs close enough to roads such that GPS doesn't have the resolution to tell the difference reliably enough to justify shutting off the phone. Or, for that matter, if you're riding a tram/light rail system that at times has the rails IN regular roads, directly in or alongside traffic.
The passenger thing would be more difficult or possibly impossible.
Not to mention bus systems, taxis, hotel/airport/etc shuttles...
The difference can be attributed to the resilient and aggressive botnet market as well as a higher volume of global spam that has ensued since the beginning of the credit crisis toward the end of 2008.
Um... no, those two facts can perhaps help to explain the overall increase in spam, globally. They do absolutely nothing to explain why Idaho, specifically, has jumped up the list of being spammed more often per capita.
As the GP said, economy. Rough estimate (or wild exaggeration), you can crank out a hundred or so CDs for the cost of making one ROM cartridge. And CDs stuffed around ten times the maximum data on an N64 cart for that reduced cost, too.
And as was quite obvious from that generation of consoles, gamers and developers were very gladly willing to suffer loading screens for both those advantages. As much as I'm a dirty hippy Nintendo fanboy, the access time argument they put forth didn't stand the tests of time or public opinion.
Brilliant! Because what I've always wanted in a video game controller is to take the elegant simplicity of the Wii Remote, lag it more, make all the buttons non-tactile, make it incredibly more fragile, have phone calls come in and screw up my game, and sell it for ten to twenty times the cost! Per controller!
Unless Amazon has some explosive charges tucked away in the Kindle, all it'll take is one geek friend of the thief to take it apart and do whatever unbricking is needed to make it a not-useless device again.
Guy kicks up a fuss at a Massachusetts car-repair shop, employees call the police, guy allegedly gives them a hard time, too [...]
Man, Click and Clack have some explaining to do...
The sensitive data itself is even stored on an outside server so that even Facebook cannot access it.
(emphasis mine)
So... um... if the data's not stored on Facebook, why is Facebook a part of this equation? Why not just advertise a generic centralized cryptographic system they're running and apply it generally? Or do they really need the publicity that badly that they're just whoring on Facebook's privacy issues?
Come to think of it, if Facebook isn't even involved, why even bother with a central server? I'd think it'd be far more effective to make an interface to some sort of distributed network of encryption keys or whatnot. I mean, it probably wouldn't be perfect, but I'm sure you could get some pretty good privacy out of the deal.
Unfortunately, no matter how safe, clean, or whatnot of the design, you still need to get over that first hurdle of convincing the people to allow the first one to be built in the area. Then there might be less resistance to the next.
A point well taken, but there's a degree of normalcy shift you need to expect when you live around the corner from Bungie.
Er... because Bungie is the real-world game company analogue of ESPN's SportsCenter ads? Where you have Halo characters just walking the streets at random, always carrying around massive weapons and other props from Halo, and every cop on the street should have intricate, in-depth knowledge of the Halo series and all the weapons therein (as well as how they compare to similar-but-different weapons in the real world)?
I have this feeling that around Bungie's headquarters, it's pretty well the same as any other software office house. People walk in, work, and leave later in the day. I mean, I develop software for a printer company, and I don't walk in and out of work every day comedically nearly-mummified in tractor-fed printer paper.
OK, killing I can see, but burning? How are they going to light the matches or activate the Zippo? You can't rub two sticks together if all you have are hooves.
Mrs. O'Leary would like to have a word with you...
What about putting the advertisements on the pedestrians' shirts? Then we might remember them better AND be able to run down walking advertisements with satisfyingly bloody results!
"In the Shirt Test, the test subjects did not fare quite so well in the game portion of the test, score-wise. What they seemed to prefer to do is hit pedestrians with advertisements on their shirts, back over them, and repeat the process until either the pedestrian was removed from the game or time ran out. However, the subjects DID remember the ads better, if not only in the sense of, as one subject put it, the satisfaction of hitting 'that stupid-looking tool with the Coca-Cola shirt on'. Further research is needed. Here's our grant application."
FlashLite is, in effect, Flash for embedded devices (so, yes, lite-er). I do know that FL3 can only take ActionScript 2 for code, so, yeah, probably only in the Flash 8 range.
My first test of the new version was to hit up one of the Homestar Runner main pages, the one that's entirely blurred as if you needed better glasses. Or, more to the point, as if they were using the Gaussian blur filter in Flash, which didn't exist in Flash 8, and thus didn't work on the latest version of Internet Channel. Hrmph.
Which I guess isn't that much an issue, I sort of have a computer for my web browsing. And a laptop. And a cell phone. And...
This argument only seems relevant if your generic theory is completely generic;
"Things happen. Sometimes."
I think that about wraps up everything.
This is 2009, dammit! Why do the media companies keep wanting us to go back to 1984?!?!
Because they had a lot more control back then than they do now, and are quite convinced they can get back to the good ol' days the good ol' fashioned way: Buying it.
So you're suggesting the major antagonist of Avatar will be some sort of mechcutting tree?
The phones will just crank their output power to the max in a selfless attempt to communicate [...]
Hopeless attempt. Hopeless.
Well, okay, technically, I suppose they WOULD be doing it selflessly, as, lacking sentience or life, most philosophers would agree that they also lack any real traditional sense of "self" (obviously, for the sake of this argument, disregarding philosophies and religions imparting a sort of "spirit" to all things, living or not), but I still don't think that's the word you're looking for. Not until they make self-aware phones which can then disregard themselves for the betterment of others, and assuming that increasing transmission power to the sacrifice of its own battery is counted among "betterment".
Which I think Apple and Google are racing towards, actually.
Of course he did! Then who was on stage with him?
I just told you. The rest of the band.
Come now, it wasn't just him on stage.
[...] would you buy anything from the Computer Hovel? The Cell Phone Shanty?
The latter, not so much. The former... actually, yes. Implies hobbyists and an air of building your own system.
Which, ironically, is where Radio Shack WAS back in The Day(tm), though more with raw electronics rather than computers, but now...
It is quite usable with the full freedoms of the GPL. Though it would most likely take a decent amount of porting to convert Objective-C to Java*, I could take the code they provide, modify it, and re-release it for the Android Marketplace, and I could release it for free or for a price. A Windows Mobile programmer could port it to their platform. A Palm Pre programmer could port it to their platform. They could do it all without even the slightest restriction from Apple or the iPhone. Another iPhone programmer could modify it and re-release it, even.
Apple making restrictions on their platform does not in any way make restrictions on other platforms. We could take, modify, and port it if we wanted (and didn't instead just directly port from the original XPilot source). That is in the spirit of the GPL. The fact that the author chose to make it for and release it on a platform with restrictions doesn't change that.
*: To the purists: Fine, fine, to whatever Android's specific Java-lookalike is.
No, what they meant by "hot markets" was that, for instance, one of the stores was in Scottsdale, AZ. Pretty much anywhere in Arizona is ridiculously hot, year-round.