You've been able to do more or less the same demo with an Android Gear watch and phone for a couple of years. The output was just text instead of spoken aloud. Honestly it would be a lot nicer if both people could just speak through a single phone. Their new ability to recognize speakers combined with language detection should be enough for that, you'd think. This just feels awkward. If you could invite a robot translator into a phone call, that would be awesome.
I'm disappointed that there's still such a huge price jump between the 256 and 512 GB models. +256 GB of space should not cost $400. I'm sure some of that must be a "best option" premium. A lot of people want that 512 GB and are willing to pay for it.
Also, 36W power supply? Is that due to the number of cells in the battery limiting the wattage or is it to reduce total weight? The high-end MBPs have 85W connections. While a MBP obviously sucks more power and has a larger battery, I'd be curious to know if there's a technical reason preventing the SP3 from charging faster with a higher wattage.
Remember also that you can't join an RT device to a domain. It supports exchange activesync but that's as close as you're going to get. They may be some other related tricks to help IT push some of your own company's apps out to devices but I'm not aware of how that aspect of the model works.
I've found that I get exponential returns on the time I can _effectively_ dedicate to work. For example, I'll get more than twice as much done in 20 hours/week than I will in 10. For me, the sweet spot is higher than 40 hours. I'll get a lot more done in 50 hours than I will in 40. I have the extra time to step back, learn, work on tools, improve the process, etc. At just 40, I'm usually chasing my weekly goals, only getting through the most important tasks. So, as far as my career goes, I'm mostly treading water at 40 hours. But when I spend a few months at 50, I end up having a ton of really cool results that I need to differentiate myself in a review. And also, work is simply a lot more fun when I have more than enough time to get my core work done. I end up more involved in the broader project and enjoy things a lot more. If I tried to just get by with 35 hours/week, I'd end up being stressed out constantly, hating my work, and ultimately getting poor reviews.
So yea, I think everyone needs to find the right number of hours to hit their own personal sweet spot. Then, take on a conservative amount of work that leaves around 20% of their time available for good ideas and helping out more broadly. Don't start the week by planning 50 hours and over-promising. Leave yourself extra time to improve yourself. Over months and years, that extra time adds up and results in a highly successful career.
I agree we want links to the original material. Those are always appreciated (give or take nsfw, etc). But as a former news poster at an unrelated site, it's good manors to also link where you actually saw the news first yourself. That way two niche sites posting the same news day after day don't end up hating each other for never giving credit. A lot of sites have source and via links at the bottom of the posts, eg engadget. That's kinda lazy from the poster's point of view. Slashdot has the more traditional posting style of writing it all out and trying to be interesting. And for large sites, I think it's doubly important to provide the via link first. It's how small high-quality sites are able to build a following. Via links give me warm community-first fuzzies!
I had something similar. I started dating another dev from the same org. We worked on the same floor and often wandered over to hang out when stressed or bored. It was nice having someone who was on the same product cycle as I was. Crunch time, bug bashes, etc were never an issue, etc.
The story sounds a whole lot more like the perils of putting a flirty hot girl among a socially awkward group of guys. Obviously she'll be able to take advantage. And while it won't happen every time, it's pretty obvious it'll happen some of the time. Poor guys.
Since the connector on my phone is at the top left and I know which way the notch goes, I almost never get it backwards. It's muscle memory at this point.
The only advantage I see (besides lockin/marketing) is that it could potentially be the only thin connector that is forward compatible to usb 3. As far as I know, there's no single port which can do micro usb 2.0 and 3.0. They release the iphone 5 with usb 2 but perhaps their next model needs faster data for some tasks. They can update to support usb 3 via their connector without having to change ports. While most manufacturers probably wouldn't consider it a big deal to switch to the new micro usb 3 port in the future, it would be hard for apple to build a huge accessory market if they didn't stick to a single connector for a reasonable amount of time.
In a lot of cases you don't need the pilot. But you *DO* need/want them as a backup. And honestly, I'd rather they stay awake playing games than pass out from boredom.
AP1000 is a gen 3 reactor. Bill has been pushing to get a gen 4 reactor built. I *think* that this would be the first gen 4 approved for construction. It sounds like Bill's reactor could actually use the spent fuel rods from a gen 3 like the AP1000 as fuel.
The glow nook is awesome for low-light / dark reading. I much prefer it to reading on my ipad, completely regardless of lighting conditions. The weight of the 10" ipad is a big issue for reading though. If you're going to laze around for a few hours with a book, the ipad starts to feel pretty heavy on the wrists. The nook still feels light. The only issue I have with my nook for reading is that the next/prev buttons are too stiff. I end up getting a sore hand from flipping pages. I guess I don't have my perfect device yet.. soon though I hope!
Mbps has always been bit, not byte. They're just different ways of writing the same thing. You might make a differentiation between Mbps and MBps where the caps refer to megabytes. But typically, people use that when talking in megabits. Another form like MB/s would be more common for megabytes / sec. Using completely different looking forms is usually a lot easier than relying on caps to guess. We don't always do the same thing so it's always always always better to double check if it's not obvious from the context.
It doesn't matter who people have decided to support. What matters is if they actually vote. In my mind, the presidential election is won by a campaign which gets their supports to the polls and disenfranchises their opposition from the political world enough they don't bother.
Mobile users who don't need to use a mouse for extended periods of time. But if you wanted to pick one golden scenario, it would be 'perfect' for on-the-go users of office on a win8 tablet, which is still mostly a desktop-based experience.
Not quite true. You don't have control over the servers in the middle with internet traffic. The key isn't who is running the central server, it's whether or not the software uses public key encryption for the actual VOIP traffic. You can write a service to be secure, and you can write the service not to be. I would presume that skype shares the encryption key for their VOIP traffic with their central server. I'm not sure what laws enforce this. Perhaps it's not required in all countries. Perhaps the skype-to-skype calls are secure.
The most important thing to note is that this is a closed-source app with a central server. There's no way to know if the VOIP keys are being sent to the centralized server. From a security standpoint, you can't assume they're not. And since skype won't go on the record, it seems to make a whole lot of sense to assume they do.
In any case, I wouldn't recommend it for chinese dissidents.
Pretty much exactly right. I'll just add that the important tools for building dynamic sites are the tools built into the browsers. Dreamweaver isn't going to help you debug your javascript. Laying out a little DOM is typically not where the majority of development time is spent.
WYSIWYG editors are only useful for quickly prototyping ideas. They produce throw-away quality results. Professional developers, such as myself, create throw-away quality results by hand:)
You need to pay to have an OS signed. That is true. But you can certainly still install an unsigned OS such as linux. So for the intel version, the answer is "absolutely yes, of course you can run linux. It's a PC, not an ipad!" But yes, like most every ARM device I know of, the RT model is locked down and would need to be jailbroken for anything else.
Just assume it'll be in line with ipad pricing and have slightly worse battery life. Then you won't be disappointed. For the pro version, compare it to a small ivy-bridge ultrabook. They tend to be expensive and still have shitty battery life when compared to ARM devices. It really doesn't take a lot of thought to come up with reasonable expectations.
Not trying to start a war here. Just a couple points/corrections.
idevices happily support bluetooth keyboards. There are apps for many printing scenarios which mitigates that somewhat if you can be bothered. A lot of home printers are on your home network rather than solely USB. Beyond that, a lot of routers have a USB port for a shared printer, etc. So support is limited/tricky but it's not "fugetaboutit". A lot of solutions are built up within apple's walls when 1st party support is lacking.
You don't really need a 3rd party data service. I think you can sync/store your stuff with their cloud. So that's 1st party. If your goal is to put it on a usb stick, that doesn't work.. but you could just as easily say the surface can't burn CDs. If all your devices are synced, passing around usb sticks is a nice-to-have rather than a need-to-have.
Enterprise administration is definitely important. But keep in mind RT does not have AD support. So only the surface pro will be targeting the enterprise directly. Companies will still need to think about how their IT policies deal with non-domain joined devices. I'm sure it'll have exchange support though. So I would imagine that it'll support the same activesync standards as high-end cellphones or the ipad already do, eg pin-lock and secure erase/encryption requirements. No idea what else they might have in mind for RT though.
Zune had music subscriptions and some limited social scenarios. It was just a really bad time to get into the market. At least all the work they put into building their own music store is useful. That service lives on. If you have a subscription, it works on windows, windows phone, xbox, and it'll probably be the underlying service for music/movies on win8 devices as well. Who knows if the name will live on or perhaps get replaced by some xbox marketplace (or just marketplace) naming.. but I think getting their feet wet with a music service was absolutely the right thing, even if the hardware sales were a bust.
I guess it keeps the lawyers happy and product secret when you reuse a name you already own. It's a good name.. may as well use it for something popular.
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It's an extensible API. It will work with PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Wallet, etc as well if they choose to support it.
All that foreign porn and NOT ONCE have you wondered what they were saying?
You've been able to do more or less the same demo with an Android Gear watch and phone for a couple of years. The output was just text instead of spoken aloud. Honestly it would be a lot nicer if both people could just speak through a single phone. Their new ability to recognize speakers combined with language detection should be enough for that, you'd think. This just feels awkward. If you could invite a robot translator into a phone call, that would be awesome.
I'm disappointed that there's still such a huge price jump between the 256 and 512 GB models. +256 GB of space should not cost $400. I'm sure some of that must be a "best option" premium. A lot of people want that 512 GB and are willing to pay for it.
Also, 36W power supply? Is that due to the number of cells in the battery limiting the wattage or is it to reduce total weight? The high-end MBPs have 85W connections. While a MBP obviously sucks more power and has a larger battery, I'd be curious to know if there's a technical reason preventing the SP3 from charging faster with a higher wattage.
Remember also that you can't join an RT device to a domain. It supports exchange activesync but that's as close as you're going to get. They may be some other related tricks to help IT push some of your own company's apps out to devices but I'm not aware of how that aspect of the model works.
I've found that I get exponential returns on the time I can _effectively_ dedicate to work. For example, I'll get more than twice as much done in 20 hours/week than I will in 10. For me, the sweet spot is higher than 40 hours. I'll get a lot more done in 50 hours than I will in 40. I have the extra time to step back, learn, work on tools, improve the process, etc. At just 40, I'm usually chasing my weekly goals, only getting through the most important tasks. So, as far as my career goes, I'm mostly treading water at 40 hours. But when I spend a few months at 50, I end up having a ton of really cool results that I need to differentiate myself in a review. And also, work is simply a lot more fun when I have more than enough time to get my core work done. I end up more involved in the broader project and enjoy things a lot more. If I tried to just get by with 35 hours/week, I'd end up being stressed out constantly, hating my work, and ultimately getting poor reviews.
So yea, I think everyone needs to find the right number of hours to hit their own personal sweet spot. Then, take on a conservative amount of work that leaves around 20% of their time available for good ideas and helping out more broadly. Don't start the week by planning 50 hours and over-promising. Leave yourself extra time to improve yourself. Over months and years, that extra time adds up and results in a highly successful career.
I agree we want links to the original material. Those are always appreciated (give or take nsfw, etc). But as a former news poster at an unrelated site, it's good manors to also link where you actually saw the news first yourself. That way two niche sites posting the same news day after day don't end up hating each other for never giving credit. A lot of sites have source and via links at the bottom of the posts, eg engadget. That's kinda lazy from the poster's point of view. Slashdot has the more traditional posting style of writing it all out and trying to be interesting. And for large sites, I think it's doubly important to provide the via link first. It's how small high-quality sites are able to build a following. Via links give me warm community-first fuzzies!
I had something similar. I started dating another dev from the same org. We worked on the same floor and often wandered over to hang out when stressed or bored. It was nice having someone who was on the same product cycle as I was. Crunch time, bug bashes, etc were never an issue, etc.
The story sounds a whole lot more like the perils of putting a flirty hot girl among a socially awkward group of guys. Obviously she'll be able to take advantage. And while it won't happen every time, it's pretty obvious it'll happen some of the time. Poor guys.
My cables look like this:
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Since the connector on my phone is at the top left and I know which way the notch goes, I almost never get it backwards. It's muscle memory at this point.
The only advantage I see (besides lockin/marketing) is that it could potentially be the only thin connector that is forward compatible to usb 3. As far as I know, there's no single port which can do micro usb 2.0 and 3.0. They release the iphone 5 with usb 2 but perhaps their next model needs faster data for some tasks. They can update to support usb 3 via their connector without having to change ports. While most manufacturers probably wouldn't consider it a big deal to switch to the new micro usb 3 port in the future, it would be hard for apple to build a huge accessory market if they didn't stick to a single connector for a reasonable amount of time.
In a lot of cases you don't need the pilot. But you *DO* need/want them as a backup. And honestly, I'd rather they stay awake playing games than pass out from boredom.
AP1000 is a gen 3 reactor. Bill has been pushing to get a gen 4 reactor built. I *think* that this would be the first gen 4 approved for construction. It sounds like Bill's reactor could actually use the spent fuel rods from a gen 3 like the AP1000 as fuel.
The glow nook is awesome for low-light / dark reading. I much prefer it to reading on my ipad, completely regardless of lighting conditions. The weight of the 10" ipad is a big issue for reading though. If you're going to laze around for a few hours with a book, the ipad starts to feel pretty heavy on the wrists. The nook still feels light. The only issue I have with my nook for reading is that the next/prev buttons are too stiff. I end up getting a sore hand from flipping pages. I guess I don't have my perfect device yet.. soon though I hope!
Mbps has always been bit, not byte. They're just different ways of writing the same thing. You might make a differentiation between Mbps and MBps where the caps refer to megabytes. But typically, people use that when talking in megabits. Another form like MB/s would be more common for megabytes / sec. Using completely different looking forms is usually a lot easier than relying on caps to guess. We don't always do the same thing so it's always always always better to double check if it's not obvious from the context.
3b) Or alt+f4 on the desktop :D
It doesn't matter who people have decided to support. What matters is if they actually vote. In my mind, the presidential election is won by a campaign which gets their supports to the polls and disenfranchises their opposition from the political world enough they don't bother.
Mobile users who don't need to use a mouse for extended periods of time. But if you wanted to pick one golden scenario, it would be 'perfect' for on-the-go users of office on a win8 tablet, which is still mostly a desktop-based experience.
Tor's main purpose is anonymity. That's a little different.
Not quite true. You don't have control over the servers in the middle with internet traffic. The key isn't who is running the central server, it's whether or not the software uses public key encryption for the actual VOIP traffic. You can write a service to be secure, and you can write the service not to be. I would presume that skype shares the encryption key for their VOIP traffic with their central server. I'm not sure what laws enforce this. Perhaps it's not required in all countries. Perhaps the skype-to-skype calls are secure.
The most important thing to note is that this is a closed-source app with a central server. There's no way to know if the VOIP keys are being sent to the centralized server. From a security standpoint, you can't assume they're not. And since skype won't go on the record, it seems to make a whole lot of sense to assume they do.
In any case, I wouldn't recommend it for chinese dissidents.
Pretty much exactly right. I'll just add that the important tools for building dynamic sites are the tools built into the browsers. Dreamweaver isn't going to help you debug your javascript. Laying out a little DOM is typically not where the majority of development time is spent.
WYSIWYG editors are only useful for quickly prototyping ideas. They produce throw-away quality results. Professional developers, such as myself, create throw-away quality results by hand :)
You need to pay to have an OS signed. That is true. But you can certainly still install an unsigned OS such as linux. So for the intel version, the answer is "absolutely yes, of course you can run linux. It's a PC, not an ipad!" But yes, like most every ARM device I know of, the RT model is locked down and would need to be jailbroken for anything else.
Just assume it'll be in line with ipad pricing and have slightly worse battery life. Then you won't be disappointed. For the pro version, compare it to a small ivy-bridge ultrabook. They tend to be expensive and still have shitty battery life when compared to ARM devices. It really doesn't take a lot of thought to come up with reasonable expectations.
Not trying to start a war here. Just a couple points/corrections.
idevices happily support bluetooth keyboards. There are apps for many printing scenarios which mitigates that somewhat if you can be bothered. A lot of home printers are on your home network rather than solely USB. Beyond that, a lot of routers have a USB port for a shared printer, etc. So support is limited/tricky but it's not "fugetaboutit". A lot of solutions are built up within apple's walls when 1st party support is lacking.
You don't really need a 3rd party data service. I think you can sync/store your stuff with their cloud. So that's 1st party. If your goal is to put it on a usb stick, that doesn't work.. but you could just as easily say the surface can't burn CDs. If all your devices are synced, passing around usb sticks is a nice-to-have rather than a need-to-have.
Enterprise administration is definitely important. But keep in mind RT does not have AD support. So only the surface pro will be targeting the enterprise directly. Companies will still need to think about how their IT policies deal with non-domain joined devices. I'm sure it'll have exchange support though. So I would imagine that it'll support the same activesync standards as high-end cellphones or the ipad already do, eg pin-lock and secure erase/encryption requirements. No idea what else they might have in mind for RT though.
Zune had music subscriptions and some limited social scenarios. It was just a really bad time to get into the market. At least all the work they put into building their own music store is useful. That service lives on. If you have a subscription, it works on windows, windows phone, xbox, and it'll probably be the underlying service for music/movies on win8 devices as well. Who knows if the name will live on or perhaps get replaced by some xbox marketplace (or just marketplace) naming.. but I think getting their feet wet with a music service was absolutely the right thing, even if the hardware sales were a bust.
I guess it keeps the lawyers happy and product secret when you reuse a name you already own. It's a good name.. may as well use it for something popular.