RIM? Oh, Come on. The very first iPhone blew them out of the water as far a UI, functionality and usability goes.
Symbian, maybe. They did very well with the processors available back in the day, but If you look at what Apple delivered, they were clearly ahead of what Symbian had at that time.
They are all behind the Android eight ball now. With a multitude of companies plowing mind-share into Android, Apple, Rim and Symbian can't help but to fall further behind.
The days of the hardware maker also being the software developers is over. Android, Symbian, and maybe Linux itself are going to be the winners going forward. Especially if Android is re-merged back into the kernel.
The control freak nature of Apple has driven me to the Nexus One, and I couldn't be happier.
This just gets Apple back to par with Nexus One, and HTC Droid Incredible, with ugly unimaginative styling.
Until someone reveals the chipset inside we still have no idea if we are stuck with those horrible infineon chips which are the root of iPhone evil.
Apple is clearly no longer the leader. This phone is their admission of that fact. They hope packaging will save them. Look forward to multiple colors. That seems to be the "innovation" of choice when Apple sees no other avenue for improvement.
Active noise reduction is standard in many Android phones.
Video conferencing? Are you serious? How long do you think you want to stare up the nostrils of someone you are talking to? And just where do you think all that bandwidth is going to come from?
Faster processor? Cool. Dual Cores? Cool. Better res screen, better camera? Fine. I'll take 'em.
But the design and layout adds nothing. Its the same old crap repackaged with slab sides corners rather than rounded. Nothing revolutionary
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me dozens of times, I'm an Apple customer."
Well said.
The thing is that there is nothing much new in the design, other than the unimaginative and unstylish slab sides. It looks so old, so boring. They have run out of Ideas.
The whole country needs some sort of breakthrough,' says Viktor F. Vekselberg, the Russian business oligarch appointed co-director of the project.
The new boss, same as the old boss.
Silicon valley was not a government project. And starting a state run program to create what happened spontaneously elsewhere in an environment where competition and markets prevailed is doomed to failure.
Great way to build a moon rocket or a hydroelectric Dam, and to copy other technology, but hardly the way to spark creativity and new inventions.
She felt no compunction about stealing US inventions to help her "invention".
"r Wood turned to the emerging US-invented technology of cultured skin to save his life, working nights in a laboratory along with scientist Marie Stoner."
It just that destruction is only one means to an end, and virtually NEVER the first choice, either strategically or tactically.
Had Iraqi forces withdrawn, they would still have had the ability to wage war in Kuwait on a moment's notice, but since compliance would have been achieved no war would have happened.
To make it more specific, the Military's purpose is to destroy any other military or militant group's ability to wage war.
Nope.
What the GP said is much closer.
The purpose is not to kill or destroy, but to seek compliance.
Any time a commander succeeds in obtaining compliance without firing a shot they have done their job perfectly.
Gulf I was a perfect example. If your thesis were correct coalition forces would have gone to Baghdad while the Iraqi Army was in total disarray, and destroyed every military object on the way. But because compliance was obtained, that did not happen. (Some debate the wisdom of that decision to this day).
Get a cell phone that can also use your wireless net connection like a lot of today's cell phones do.
Or get with AT&T and use their micro Cell (which is actually a femtocell) that uses your broadband to feed a home-cell just for your phones (or any you authorize).
You have to get over the bit about paying them to allow you to provide extensions to their infrastructure, but once you climb off that soap box it provides pretty good service.
This guy must be an idiot to get traced to his IP address. Don't they have free wifi Cafes in Texas?
Any dealership I've been has a free wifi in their service waiting lounge. He's out of work, plenty of time to grow a beard, buy (ok Steal) some sunglasses, a black cowboy hat, and sit in their own waiting lounge and beat them with their own stick.
In a few years 3D source media will be much more prevalent.
This will lead to more demand for 3D programming, and probably more horrid 2D to 3D conversions.
I would be willing to bet that 2D-3D conversion could be done by in-set software on the fly from visual cues as actors and objects move on the screen relative to each other on consecutive frames.
Even today, TV can provide made for 3D content EASIER than theaters, because you can always add another channel to a TV broadcast to carry the other "eye". Right eye image could be carried on normal TV, and left eye could be broadcast on a companion channel and only used on 3D capable sets.
But Movie theaters have to have a special 3D separated film, and colored or polarized glasses, and occasionally special projectors. And the damned throw-away Glasses for every patron.
I can't speak to Theraputic, but having a loud annoying ring tone affects the way most people answer the phone.
Something soothing sets the mood. Something loud or annoying tends to make people snap at the caller.
This was found when the first electronic handsets were introduced to offices. They came with a selection of ring tones and office managers quickly determined that setting the phones to use the more pleasant sounding the ring, lead to more civil answering, even during hectic times.
At least 9 out of 10 taxi drivers in NYC do not know enough about the city's streets or the city's traffic patterns to know when it is appropriate to make a judgement call to deviate from the GPS-selected route.
Okay this is baloney. 100% wrong, I know your from out of town but most cab drivers are very skilled at traffic patterns and where things are.
Exactly. From out of town.
Those are the people who get toured around. Locals would tell know when the driver is joy riding them, call them on it, and think nothing of it. Out of town people get shafted because they don't know the city.
Let the cabby set the number of passengers, and maybe customer requested wait time, but have the GPS calc the total fare.
This should also be able to eliminate deliberate "tours" where the driver takes a round about route to run up the meter just because the hay-seed passenger was picked up at the airport.
Point to point fares would also be easily calculated and computer adjusted for construction detours, but not allow the round about when there is no reason.
Persistance of human vision is not the problem. Rather, the persistance of Incandesence. It takes time for a filiment to cool. This is why all naval signal lights were shuttered, rather than switched. Incandesent bulbs simply could not be switched as fast as a good signal man could send.
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RIM? Oh, Come on. The very first iPhone blew them out of the water as far a UI, functionality and usability goes.
Symbian, maybe. They did very well with the processors available back in the day, but If you look at what Apple delivered, they were clearly ahead of what Symbian had at that time.
They are all behind the Android eight ball now. With a multitude of companies plowing mind-share into Android, Apple, Rim and Symbian can't help but to fall further behind.
The days of the hardware maker also being the software developers is over. Android, Symbian, and maybe Linux itself are going to be the winners going forward. Especially if Android is re-merged back into the kernel.
The control freak nature of Apple has driven me to the Nexus One, and I couldn't be happier.
Plus 1 to everything you said.
This just gets Apple back to par with Nexus One, and HTC Droid Incredible, with ugly unimaginative styling.
Until someone reveals the chipset inside we still have no idea if we are stuck with those horrible infineon chips which are the root of iPhone evil.
Apple is clearly no longer the leader. This phone is their admission of that fact. They hope packaging will save them. Look forward to multiple colors. That seems to be the "innovation" of choice when Apple sees no other avenue for improvement.
Active noise reduction is standard in many Android phones.
Video conferencing? Are you serious? How long do you think you want to stare up the nostrils of someone you are talking to? And just where do you think all that bandwidth is going to come from?
Faster processor? Cool.
Dual Cores? Cool.
Better res screen, better camera? Fine. I'll take 'em.
But the design and layout adds nothing. Its the same old crap repackaged with slab sides corners rather than rounded. Nothing revolutionary
"Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me dozens of times, I'm an Apple customer."
Well said.
The thing is that there is nothing much new in the design, other than the unimaginative and unstylish slab sides. It looks so old, so boring. They have run out of Ideas.
Steve Jobs said it best:
http://gizmodo.com/5462381/mosspuppets-epic-steve-jobs-interview
The whole country needs some sort of breakthrough,' says Viktor F. Vekselberg, the Russian business oligarch appointed co-director of the project.
The new boss, same as the old boss.
Silicon valley was not a government project. And starting a state run program to create what happened spontaneously elsewhere in an environment where competition and markets prevailed is doomed to failure.
Great way to build a moon rocket or a hydroelectric Dam, and to copy other technology, but hardly the way to spark creativity and new inventions.
She felt no compunction about stealing US inventions to help her "invention".
"r Wood turned to the emerging US-invented technology of cultured skin to save his life, working nights in a laboratory along with scientist Marie Stoner."
No, I don't assume the don't co-exist.
It just that destruction is only one means to an end, and virtually NEVER the first choice, either strategically or tactically.
Had Iraqi forces withdrawn, they would still have had the ability to wage war in Kuwait on a moment's notice, but since compliance would have been achieved no war would have happened.
To make it more specific, the Military's purpose is to destroy any other military or militant group's ability to wage war.
Nope.
What the GP said is much closer.
The purpose is not to kill or destroy, but to seek compliance.
Any time a commander succeeds in obtaining compliance without firing a shot they have done their job perfectly.
Gulf I was a perfect example. If your thesis were correct coalition forces would have gone to Baghdad while the Iraqi Army was in total disarray, and destroyed every military object on the way. But because compliance was obtained, that did not happen. (Some debate the wisdom of that decision to this day).
Get a cell phone that can also use your wireless net connection like a lot of today's cell phones do.
Or get with AT&T and use their micro Cell (which is actually a femtocell) that uses your broadband to feed a home-cell just for your phones (or any you authorize).
You have to get over the bit about paying them to allow you to provide extensions to their infrastructure, but once you climb off that soap box it provides pretty good service.
http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2010/0325/AT-T-Microcell-could-help-improve-home-cell-service
It just went nation wide.
This guy must be an idiot to get traced to his IP address.
Don't they have free wifi Cafes in Texas?
Any dealership I've been has a free wifi in their service waiting lounge. He's out of work, plenty of time to grow a beard, buy (ok Steal) some sunglasses, a black cowboy hat, and sit in their own waiting lounge and beat them with their own stick.
Downloading a file (from a P2P network) for private use is perfectly legal as long as there is no lucrative or collective use of the downloaded copy.
So this pretty much destroys copyright in Spain, right?
As long as you don't sell it, Music is free?
Collective use (what ever the hell that is) is also ok.
Are you sure this is what you want?
Surprise!
Plus, even if it does take off, there are too many standards (or lack thereof) right now to allow for 3D to work for the home consumer.
Really?
http://gizmodo.com/5443165/im-sold-on-3d-tvsand-i-kind-of-hate-myself-for-it
But you CAN get it at home, and probably easier than you can get it at the theater.
Best Buy is really pushing 3D TV.
Much of this stuff is not yet ready for mass appeal. But that fact is changing daily.
In a few years 3D source media will be much more prevalent.
This will lead to more demand for 3D programming, and probably more horrid 2D to 3D conversions.
I would be willing to bet that 2D-3D conversion could be done by in-set software on the fly from visual cues as actors and objects move on the screen relative to each other on consecutive frames.
Even today, TV can provide made for 3D content EASIER than theaters, because you can always add another channel to a TV broadcast to carry the other "eye". Right eye image could be carried on normal TV, and left eye could be broadcast on a companion channel and only used on 3D capable sets.
But Movie theaters have to have a special 3D separated film, and colored or polarized glasses, and occasionally special projectors. And the damned throw-away Glasses for every patron.
It bugs me you missed the smileie.
I think you can get those prescribed here in the States by your homeopath. ;-)
Makes me wonder why a company with the name of "Core Security Technologies" has an exploit writer on staff.
Yeah, that too.
I can't speak to Theraputic, but having a loud annoying ring tone affects the way most people answer the phone.
Something soothing sets the mood. Something loud or annoying tends to make people snap at the caller.
This was found when the first electronic handsets were introduced to offices. They came with a selection of ring tones and office managers quickly determined that setting the phones to use the more pleasant sounding the ring, lead to more civil answering, even during hectic times.
What if we eat the Oyster? Can we get a deposit back on the shell?
Or maybe once you are addressing people who do NOT live in London, you might want to explain what an Oyster is?
At least 9 out of 10 taxi drivers in NYC do not know enough about the city's streets or the city's traffic patterns to know when it is appropriate to make a judgement call to deviate from the GPS-selected route.
Okay this is baloney. 100% wrong, I know your from out of town but most cab drivers are very skilled at traffic patterns and where things are.
Exactly. From out of town.
Those are the people who get toured around. Locals would tell know when the driver is joy riding them, call them on it, and think nothing of it. Out of town people get shafted because they don't know the city.
I'm not saying dictate the route to the cabby.
Just dictate the price from point A to point B removing any incentive to tour you thru some back street route.
I'm not saying the companies can't compete on rates, just have a set rate.
Cabbies make their money on tips and quantity. Get there quicker by better knowledge and you pick up another fare that much quicker.
You never get toured when there is lots of business. Only when business is scarce.
Exactly.
Let the cabby set the number of passengers, and maybe customer requested wait time, but have the GPS calc the total fare.
This should also be able to eliminate deliberate "tours" where the driver takes a round about route to run up the meter just because the hay-seed passenger was picked up at the airport.
Point to point fares would also be easily calculated and computer adjusted for construction detours, but not allow the round about when there is no reason.
So this is after 2012 right?
Phfft! No problem.
Those are not incandescent.
They are examples shuttered light sources.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signal_lamp
I'm not aware of any standard desk lamps that include these things.
Persistance of human vision is not the problem. Rather, the persistance of Incandesence. It takes time for a filiment to cool. This is why all naval signal lights were shuttered, rather than switched. Incandesent bulbs simply could not be switched as fast as a good signal man could send.