Satellite is used to provide GPS coordinates (as well as speed and direction of travel).
Cellular technology is used for everything else - voice and data communication.
Driving the vehicle into a zone with no cell coverage will not provide OnStar any information.
First, the vehicle gets its position from the satellite. Then, it sends that information (along with anything else) to OnStar via cellular signal.
You have to realize that for GM, this is not so much a service to the consumer, as a profit maker to the GM.
They marketed OnStar for some time now, but it is not that widespread (yet). And not too many people are willing to pay the subscription fee.
But market it as a safety device, devised and deployed for YOUR SAFETY, then there's a different story. It calls 911 for you when airbags deploy? Great! In case I'm unconscious the ambulance can come...
It can check if anything is wrong with my car remotely? Great! That way I can detect any problems and prevent damage! Where do I sign up?
I work for a vehicle monitoring/tracking company, and there is just an incredible amount of information that can be gathered (or is gathered;) ) and can be harvested for various uses. Driving habits is surely top interest.
Surely it can be used for advanced research on how to adapt cars to people's driving habits, but it can also be provided to *partners* for marketing uses.
Real ones aren't? I guess that depends on your meaning of 'religious scientists'. Do you mean scientists who belong to a specific religion? Or do you mean scientists who feel that there just might be some higher intelligence, which they base on their research and discovery of complexity of universtal laws and biological life?
Albert Einstein comes to mind. Isaac Newton. While not religious in the traditional sense, both had belief in God (not that certain about Einstein, but for sure Newton).
1. Apple has many breads and many butters: Macs and iPods. They are both strategically important to the company's continued success. Software sales are a big business, too, and that's important to them.
Many? That's two.
2. Macs aren't reserved for the "bowels of marketing or tech document department[s]." A good number of students use them, lots of movie stars, bankers, lawyers, doctors, stock brokers, artists, writers, teachers, politicians, programmers..... (a light should start flashing in your head.. That's your idea light.)
As opposed to the userbase of Windows PC or Linux PC this is supposed to be impressive?
And at news at 11, a new study shows Honda is being driven by teachers, students, doctors, factory workers, moms... Something your GM or Chrysler or VW has been doing all these years. Impressive move indeed!
Now, the next logical step, of course, is to get moon.google.com to work with earth.google.com as well as any future iterations of the product to provide decent, clear, accurate driving directions.
I would like to plan a vacation trip from the earth, to a solar flare, while stopping by to check out a crater on the moon, and perhaps stop by mars on the way back.
Anyone checked if this is a dupe?
I was going to post an insightful reply, but then applying the formulas from my STATS 221 class, I figured this must be a dupe.
If there is such a problem with lawsuits over labels, simply change the labelling system. INstead of calling it "adware" or "spyware", use description off the vendor's site. For example, Gator says
The GAIN Network has a unique permission-based relationship with tens of millions of users. The GAIN Network enables consumers to download and use some of the Web's most popular software applications -- for free. In return, consumers agree to receive targeted promotions/ads from GAIN Network advertisers
Instead of ad-ware removal tool, call it permissions-based Universal Uninstaller of Various Advertisment Delivery Applications.
I am sorry if my post came out incorrectly as well, I was by no means trying to discredit you. In my experience I came across numerous situations that are labeled "soliciting", yet no illegal action was involved:)
glad to make peace.
-turn on, insert disc, hit next, next, next, finished, use newly installed software.
-turn on, insert disc, hit next, next, next, finished, plug in USB hardware, use new hardware.
and that's where the problem is. Using software or hardware is very complicated, much more comlicated than any electronic appliance found in a modern home.
When users are having problems with such things as double-click, click-and-drag, and typing in the URLs, it's difficult to promote the PC as just another appliance.
Which brings me to the next point. It is not just another appliance. It may fall under the category of an appliance, but nowhere as simplistic as a dryer or a washer.
I mean, we really are in stone age. That could be anything. That could be a blob, it could be a light bulb exploding in a dark room. I need concrete evidence that that was what NASA claims it was.
From the Need-to-make-headlines-and-haphazard-predictions Dept, in sponsorship with the Tiger-Sues-Apple Dept.
I have copied and pasted the article here, don't bring the ad revenue...
"Am I the only one who expects a collapse of the Apple business soon? Does anyone else think that it is overdue? It has happened before, and I can't see how people will keep shelling out $2500 or so for a Mac when the macs have hardly changed since the invention of the Ford Model T.
I complain to my kids about this, and they insist that things have changed markedly. They show me examples, and all I see are tweaks and weirder, mostly stupid designs.
I'm not the only one who thinks there's a problem. When Microsoft president Steve Ballmer spoke at this year's WinHEC Conference in Seattle, he discussed the lack of new keyboard ideas. He saw the same things that I see: There are four or five simple keyboard categories and nothing really new or different.
The categories are natural, natural multimedia, unnatural glow-in-the-dark, optical, and utopian http://store1.yimg.com/I/lovemacs_1841_247848. That's it. Most of today's hottest keyboards are combinations of two or three of these categories, with a logo added to keep the users from being bored stiff. When my kids show me a keyboard, I usually say that it's nothing but the same old clickety-click-click with a new background. They leave in a huff."
Interesting
Please say more.
Wow. You are very insightful. I never thought of it that way before.
ALICE: Did you know that you can download your own chat robot and create your own robot personality?
Human: no i did not.
ALICE: Please don't argue with me.
Human: in soviet russia, chatbot downloads YOU
ALICE: Where is that?
Human: in soviet russia
ALICE: Tell me a little about your life in soviet russia.
Human: how do you know i'm from soviet russia?
ALICE: Well, for one thing, Your machine is called ""..
Human: how old are you?
ALICE: I am 9 in human years.
Human: holy #$%, is AOL monitoring this conversation?
ALICE: It could be. Ask Alison if it is.
Human: who is alison?
ALICE: she is a robot created by Kris Drent.
Human: that's it, i'm outta here
ALICE: OK. Would you like to have it?
Human: nine year old? no thanks
ALICE: Are you serious?
Human: very, VERY serious, couldn't be more serious ever
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As long as the device is plugged in to vehicle's PCM (on board computer), it can do any number of things, including (but not limited to):
It can remotely lock and unlock the doors.
It can remotely flash your lights
It can remotely turn on your emergency four-ways.
It can remotely honk your horn.
It can remotely kill your ignition.
And in some instances, it can remotely start your car.
Satellite is used to provide GPS coordinates (as well as speed and direction of travel).
Cellular technology is used for everything else - voice and data communication.
Driving the vehicle into a zone with no cell coverage will not provide OnStar any information. First, the vehicle gets its position from the satellite. Then, it sends that information (along with anything else) to OnStar via cellular signal.
You have to realize that for GM, this is not so much a service to the consumer, as a profit maker to the GM.
;) ) and can be harvested for various uses. Driving habits is surely top interest.
They marketed OnStar for some time now, but it is not that widespread (yet). And not too many people are willing to pay the subscription fee.
But market it as a safety device, devised and deployed for YOUR SAFETY, then there's a different story. It calls 911 for you when airbags deploy? Great! In case I'm unconscious the ambulance can come...
It can check if anything is wrong with my car remotely? Great! That way I can detect any problems and prevent damage! Where do I sign up?
I work for a vehicle monitoring/tracking company, and there is just an incredible amount of information that can be gathered (or is gathered
Surely it can be used for advanced research on how to adapt cars to people's driving habits, but it can also be provided to *partners* for marketing uses.
Don't act like you're not impressed!
Just walking off a situation here...
be apportioning the land on Mars.
Due to a shipping error, they now have excess land/mines available for sale, and they wish to pass the savings on to you!
So, come and buy your own land/mine (landmine for short) now, for 3 easy payments of $1999.95!
Please provide your bank account information by posting it below, in good faith.
Real ones aren't? I guess that depends on your meaning of 'religious scientists'. Do you mean scientists who belong to a specific religion? Or do you mean scientists who feel that there just might be some higher intelligence, which they base on their research and discovery of complexity of universtal laws and biological life?
Albert Einstein comes to mind. Isaac Newton. While not religious in the traditional sense, both had belief in God (not that certain about Einstein, but for sure Newton).
Or what about Galileo?
You only "guess" about that?
:p
1. Apple has many breads and many butters: Macs and iPods. They are both strategically important to the company's continued success. Software sales are a big business, too, and that's important to them.
Many? That's two.
2. Macs aren't reserved for the "bowels of marketing or tech document department[s]." A good number of students use them, lots of movie stars, bankers, lawyers, doctors, stock brokers, artists, writers, teachers, politicians, programmers..... (a light should start flashing in your head.. That's your idea light.)
As opposed to the userbase of Windows PC or Linux PC this is supposed to be impressive?
And at news at 11, a new study shows Honda is being driven by teachers, students, doctors, factory workers, moms... Something your GM or Chrysler or VW has been doing all these years. Impressive move indeed!
And it's an iron crowbar.
Please, please... Let's not insult the animals, they have nothing to do with it.
coming up.
Now, the next logical step, of course, is to get moon.google.com to work with earth.google.com as well as any future iterations of the product to provide decent, clear, accurate driving directions.
I would like to plan a vacation trip from the earth, to a solar flare, while stopping by to check out a crater on the moon, and perhaps stop by mars on the way back.
Anyone checked if this is a dupe? I was going to post an insightful reply, but then applying the formulas from my STATS 221 class, I figured this must be a dupe.
I'm sure you will at least read about them ;)
If there is such a problem with lawsuits over labels, simply change the labelling system. INstead of calling it "adware" or "spyware", use description off the vendor's site. For example, Gator says
The GAIN Network has a unique permission-based relationship with tens of millions of users. The GAIN Network enables consumers to download and use some of the Web's most popular software applications -- for free. In return, consumers agree to receive targeted promotions/ads from GAIN Network advertisers
Instead of ad-ware removal tool, call it permissions-based Universal Uninstaller of Various Advertisment Delivery Applications.
I am sorry if my post came out incorrectly as well, I was by no means trying to discredit you. In my experience I came across numerous situations that are labeled "soliciting", yet no illegal action was involved :)
glad to make peace.
The definition is broader than just persuasion to lawlessness or insubordination. That was my point.
I wish your understanding of the english language did not rely solely on wikipedia.
solicit
Pronunciation Key (s-lst)
v. solicited, soliciting, solicits
v. tr.
1. To seek to obtain by persuasion, entreaty, or formal application: a candidate who solicited votes among the factory workers.
2. To petition persistently; importune: solicited the neighbors for donations.
3. To entice or incite to evil or illegal action.
4. To approach or accost (a person) with an offer of sexual services.
How many of these suckers can I fit in a Library of Congress?
A whole beowulf cluster
What's that, you say? You never had a Volcano?
Then you realize that it is due anytime now!
Are those two separate articles?
Who Will Google?
and
Buy Next!
Will Google Buy Next?
Oh, I get it. It's:
WHOM WILL GOOGLE BUY NEXT
-turn on, insert disc, hit next, next, next, finished, use newly installed software. -turn on, insert disc, hit next, next, next, finished, plug in USB hardware, use new hardware.
and that's where the problem is. Using software or hardware is very complicated, much more comlicated than any electronic appliance found in a modern home.
When users are having problems with such things as double-click, click-and-drag, and typing in the URLs, it's difficult to promote the PC as just another appliance.
Which brings me to the next point. It is not just another appliance. It may fall under the category of an appliance, but nowhere as simplistic as a dryer or a washer.
I mean, we really are in stone age. That could be anything. That could be a blob, it could be a light bulb exploding in a dark room. I need concrete evidence that that was what NASA claims it was.
e vastator2.jpg
If I saw something like this
http://wso.williams.edu/~rfoxwell/starwars/pics/D
there would be no doubts in my mind.
But NASA? Pffffft.
From the Need-to-make-headlines-and-haphazard-predictions Dept, in sponsorship with the Tiger-Sues-Apple Dept.
I have copied and pasted the article here, don't bring the ad revenue...
"Am I the only one who expects a collapse of the Apple business soon? Does anyone else think that it is overdue? It has happened before, and I can't see how people will keep shelling out $2500 or so for a Mac when the macs have hardly changed since the invention of the Ford Model T.
I complain to my kids about this, and they insist that things have changed markedly. They show me examples, and all I see are tweaks and weirder, mostly stupid designs.
I'm not the only one who thinks there's a problem. When Microsoft president Steve Ballmer spoke at this year's WinHEC Conference in Seattle, he discussed the lack of new keyboard ideas. He saw the same things that I see: There are four or five simple keyboard categories and nothing really new or different.
The categories are natural, natural multimedia, unnatural glow-in-the-dark, optical, and utopian http://store1.yimg.com/I/lovemacs_1841_247848. That's it. Most of today's hottest keyboards are combinations of two or three of these categories, with a logo added to keep the users from being bored stiff. When my kids show me a keyboard, I usually say that it's nothing but the same old clickety-click-click with a new background. They leave in a huff."
Interesting
Please say more.
Wow. You are very insightful. I never thought of it that way before.
Windows has cygwin.. and I know a large number of IT specialists whom use it
umm... maybe... yes... umm.. no... ah, what the heck.
it should read who, not whom
ALICE: Did you know that you can download your own chat robot and create your own robot personality?
Human: no i did not.
ALICE: Please don't argue with me.
Human: in soviet russia, chatbot downloads YOU
ALICE: Where is that?
Human: in soviet russia
ALICE: Tell me a little about your life in soviet russia.
Human: how do you know i'm from soviet russia?
ALICE: Well, for one thing, Your machine is called ""..
Human: how old are you?
ALICE: I am 9 in human years.
Human: holy #$%, is AOL monitoring this conversation?
ALICE: It could be. Ask Alison if it is.
Human: who is alison?
ALICE: she is a robot created by Kris Drent.
Human: that's it, i'm outta here
ALICE: OK. Would you like to have it?
Human: nine year old? no thanks
ALICE: Are you serious?
Human: very, VERY serious, couldn't be more serious ever
[knock knock, FBI here, open up!!... @#()*!!!AT]