Exactly. Not had an issue with that, and I/appear/ to have some control over that stuff too. There's times to worry about stuff, but finding the route to the nearest Starbucks and having an ad pop up isn't a huge concern to me. If it pops up a coupon automatically and lets me know I can get the same coffee/muffin at a coffee shop 2 doors away? All the better.
But whilst G+, Maps, Image search are all as well integrated and continue to work better, both in accuracy of things I want, and speed to get them, why would I bother to change to something that's/almost/ as good. Plus, having saved searches available on the phone to check something after searching on the laptop has been more useful than I thought it'd be. So why use Bing on desktop and Google on phone? Makes no sense.
For now, Google's still the best for what I need it to do.
True. I'd never bothered with Asus before either, but seeing how well made the EEE Transformer is, and how they're pushing the designs for newer tablets/laptops AND how they're supporting their equipment with updates, I'll be looking at them for future purchases. I know they've been around for ages, but looks like they're really stepping up and taking a spot in the usual line up of machines.
Not replace for watching that same content, but by using more time up. Instead of sitting there passively watching... whatever, I've noticed my wife can't sit there and just have the TV on. She'll have the ipad on her lap, browsing Facebook, playing some daft word game. The shows change but it's more background noise than actual watching. THAT'S how tablets are.. not replacing for now, supplementing is probably fairer to say.
If you used to spend (x) amount of time watching TV, how much time do you use a tablet? Do you subtract that time from TV watching?
As much as it'd be good to have the choice, I've had nothing but trouble using non-Google methods. Paypal's been an absolute bust getting an in app purchase working, 4 purchases, not worked once. At least it's tied together and easier (now) to get refunds from Google if there are problems.
Hmm, so all you need to do is go to Japan, copy everything they do (afterall, there's working systems you can use as a template), go back to the US, and patent everything? Something seems broken (again) here!
Types of traffic, yes. But I can imagine heavy encryption becoming far more used by user-to-user type applications as the way to route around most damage/censorship. When ALL packets are heavily encrypted, ports not obvious, and the task to mass decrypt takes (x) amount of time longer than the cost of a dvd, well, the next thing will be banning encryption, so the NEXT thing will be heavy stenography, that slows the net down. Those cat videos will have embedded warez!
Both of which could see the glow in the dark lines better than the cats eyes, that need a lightsource pointing at them anyway! The flashing lights on bikes might not be enough, but a pedestrian having glow in the dark markers along the edges of the road/path (solid lines for edge of road, dotted for edge of path?) would be far clearer.
"Never heard of cat's eyes?" Aye, mentioned in the post, but that's on the ground/where your lights are roughly currently aimed as they need to bounce back the light a bit. Glow in the dark paint would illuminate where the lights aren't yet reaching. The cats eyes will show you that the road is starting to turn left/right, the glow in the dark paint will show it's snaking back and there's a junction on the bend.
Why not just turn them off if there's no cars? Ok, current lights I'm sure take time to warm up, but if switch to these new lowpower thingies, aren't they near instantaneous? Or.... Glow in the dark paint on road sides. As cars travel by with their lights on, it'll 'charge up' and provide a clear path for the next car! Just one or 2 lights where needed at junctions (and as a heads up that there IS a junction up ahead), and catseyes/glowinthedark paint everywhere else! Save a fortune, increase road safety!
Or solar panel charged LED lights for road edges like you get at garden centres. Power up in the day, gently glow at night.
Ok, next plan... Glow cars. Seeing as body panels these days are plastic anyway, why not make them slightly translucent, and attach lights inside the panels to make the main car itself glow? You'd be able to see cars far easier, dim headlights, giving cyclists/motorbikes clearer visibility (same brightness on their lights). As cars brake, not just their rear brake lights, but the whole car illuminates/changes colour.
All in the name of saving power.
(posting so I've something to refer back to for prior art one day).
As we're seeing though,those patents aren't that strong. Can of worms opening up is that the stuff they have isn't that noteworthy, and the people they're attacking appear to have just as many, perhaps more actual meaningful patents.
That's how I see it. The idea of files within files so you can reveal/something/ when you unlock the file also looks to be good. "ok, now the other passwrd" "what other one? that's it, that's all there is, 100gb file to hide my bankPassword.txt file"
Predicted all of this, and explained very clearly why as soon as there's some traction, and the ability to move/take cash out, the existing banks/authorities will be down on their heads like a weight of very heavy things. Why Bitcoin was so scary for a time.
These things offer wonderful room for money laundering.
Hmm, probably a civil/criminal thing, and some/tiny/ change in the model allows it to be reopened.
It's obvious at this time that they've realised it's economically worthwhile to lock them down in a court, and it's just a warning to anyone else who'd think of entering the market that if they do well, they WILL be sued. So with Apple threatening legal action to totally block in one way, and MS grabbing for royalties in the other, it adds a huge extra cost to using Android they're hoping will stop future competitors.
Seems to be working well for them at this time alas. What's the solution? As said above, the only way it'd get fixed would be the lawyers wanting it to be fixed, and it's too much of a gravy train for them to ever want it solved.
Mis-typed perhaps, but I understand it to be that Google's looking after their own data. They've got their own social network, and are, obviously, pushing that first!
"hey, should we search our own data?" "hmm... lemme think about that for a second.... yeah, go on then" Twitter broke away, now moans that google's not paying them/using their data? sheesh.
True, atm they sell 50% of the Android phones, but they also sell 100% of the Samsung Android phones (obviously!), if they forked that, thats a huge base to aim at. But they've also got the TV market and ad platforms, something Google's having trouble with. If they're going to fork, now would be the time to do it.
Aye, somewhat of a dark horse here. Prepping things. Showing their new TV with apps now, and their new ad platform, I think Google's in serious risk of losing their main partner, or them not being as strong a union as before. I can totally see it from Samsung's side 'well, we can use that code base and make our own version, or with GoogleTV not really hitting it's stride atm, but our platform having a good chance, and we get to keep all the revenue, then... why do we really need you to join us in this?"
All this time, you'd think it'd be Apple the main competitor to Google, now it could turn out to be Samsung.
But if he does, they can blame it on some anonymous hackers.
Which of course it must be if (insertRandomCandidateHere) wins.
It's a bit of a waste though, everyone knows they save the real hacking for the final tally counts to decide president, not this early stage. Maybe the GOP are just upset 4chan peeps are going to decide the next president and not Karl Rove?
Is more revisions to their xperia play. This should be a phone of some sort. Doesn't have to be Android (though preferred). Just a cool gaming device, with proper controls, that can also make phone calls.
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I think that's it. And the Amiga owners are now Android Users, the Atari ST users are now drooling in a corner somewhere, and SNES owners now use iOS.
You've hit the nail on the head. They'll push back and hard. The other rights have been trampled all over, this will simply be worked around too.
Exactly. Not had an issue with that, and I /appear/ to have some control over that stuff too. There's times to worry about stuff, but finding the route to the nearest Starbucks and having an ad pop up isn't a huge concern to me. If it pops up a coupon automatically and lets me know I can get the same coffee/muffin at a coffee shop 2 doors away? All the better.
But whilst G+, Maps, Image search are all as well integrated and continue to work better, both in accuracy of things I want, and speed to get them, why would I bother to change to something that's /almost/ as good. Plus, having saved searches available on the phone to check something after searching on the laptop has been more useful than I thought it'd be. So why use Bing on desktop and Google on phone? Makes no sense.
For now, Google's still the best for what I need it to do.
True. I'd never bothered with Asus before either, but seeing how well made the EEE Transformer is, and how they're pushing the designs for newer tablets/laptops AND how they're supporting their equipment with updates, I'll be looking at them for future purchases. I know they've been around for ages, but looks like they're really stepping up and taking a spot in the usual line up of machines.
Not replace for watching that same content, but by using more time up. Instead of sitting there passively watching... whatever, I've noticed my wife can't sit there and just have the TV on. She'll have the ipad on her lap, browsing Facebook, playing some daft word game. The shows change but it's more background noise than actual watching. THAT'S how tablets are.. not replacing for now, supplementing is probably fairer to say.
If you used to spend (x) amount of time watching TV, how much time do you use a tablet? Do you subtract that time from TV watching?
As much as it'd be good to have the choice, I've had nothing but trouble using non-Google methods. Paypal's been an absolute bust getting an in app purchase working, 4 purchases, not worked once. At least it's tied together and easier (now) to get refunds from Google if there are problems.
Hmm, so all you need to do is go to Japan, copy everything they do (afterall, there's working systems you can use as a template), go back to the US, and patent everything?
Something seems broken (again) here!
90th apparently.
Types of traffic, yes. But I can imagine heavy encryption becoming far more used by user-to-user type applications as the way to route around most damage/censorship. When ALL packets are heavily encrypted, ports not obvious, and the task to mass decrypt takes (x) amount of time longer than the cost of a dvd, well, the next thing will be banning encryption, so the NEXT thing will be heavy stenography, that slows the net down.
Those cat videos will have embedded warez!
Both of which could see the glow in the dark lines better than the cats eyes, that need a lightsource pointing at them anyway! The flashing lights on bikes might not be enough, but a pedestrian having glow in the dark markers along the edges of the road/path (solid lines for edge of road, dotted for edge of path?) would be far clearer.
"Never heard of cat's eyes?"
Aye, mentioned in the post, but that's on the ground/where your lights are roughly currently aimed as they need to bounce back the light a bit. Glow in the dark paint would illuminate where the lights aren't yet reaching.
The cats eyes will show you that the road is starting to turn left/right, the glow in the dark paint will show it's snaking back and there's a junction on the bend.
Why not just turn them off if there's no cars? Ok, current lights I'm sure take time to warm up, but if switch to these new lowpower thingies, aren't they near instantaneous?
Or....
Glow in the dark paint on road sides.
As cars travel by with their lights on, it'll 'charge up' and provide a clear path for the next car! Just one or 2 lights where needed at junctions (and as a heads up that there IS a junction up ahead), and catseyes/glowinthedark paint everywhere else! Save a fortune, increase road safety!
Or solar panel charged LED lights for road edges like you get at garden centres. Power up in the day, gently glow at night.
Ok, next plan...
Glow cars. Seeing as body panels these days are plastic anyway, why not make them slightly translucent, and attach lights inside the panels to make the main car itself glow? You'd be able to see cars far easier, dim headlights, giving cyclists/motorbikes clearer visibility (same brightness on their lights).
As cars brake, not just their rear brake lights, but the whole car illuminates/changes colour.
All in the name of saving power.
(posting so I've something to refer back to for prior art one day).
The cancer causing radiation is also a bit of a concern too...
Yeah, that's how I see it. If you're downloading from dodgy websites/torrents,well... you're kinda asking for virus/trojans/who knows what.
Funny how they've announced this as Google announces 'Bouncer' to check market apps.
As we're seeing though,those patents aren't that strong. Can of worms opening up is that the stuff they have isn't that noteworthy, and the people they're attacking appear to have just as many, perhaps more actual meaningful patents.
That's how I see it. The idea of files within files so you can reveal /something/ when you unlock the file also looks to be good. "ok, now the other passwrd" "what other one? that's it, that's all there is, 100gb file to hide my bankPassword.txt file"
If there's incriminating evidence, surely this is a perfect example on why the person can't decrypt as it WOULD self incriminate them!
Predicted all of this, and explained very clearly why as soon as there's some traction, and the ability to move/take cash out, the existing banks/authorities will be down on their heads like a weight of very heavy things.
Why Bitcoin was so scary for a time.
These things offer wonderful room for money laundering.
Hmm, probably a civil/criminal thing, and some /tiny/ change in the model allows it to be reopened.
It's obvious at this time that they've realised it's economically worthwhile to lock them down in a court, and it's just a warning to anyone else who'd think of entering the market that if they do well, they WILL be sued. So with Apple threatening legal action to totally block in one way, and MS grabbing for royalties in the other, it adds a huge extra cost to using Android they're hoping will stop future competitors.
Seems to be working well for them at this time alas. What's the solution? As said above, the only way it'd get fixed would be the lawyers wanting it to be fixed, and it's too much of a gravy train for them to ever want it solved.
Mis-typed perhaps, but I understand it to be that Google's looking after their own data. They've got their own social network, and are, obviously, pushing that first!
"hey, should we search our own data?" "hmm... lemme think about that for a second.... yeah, go on then"
Twitter broke away, now moans that google's not paying them/using their data? sheesh.
True, atm they sell 50% of the Android phones, but they also sell 100% of the Samsung Android phones (obviously!), if they forked that, thats a huge base to aim at.
But they've also got the TV market and ad platforms, something Google's having trouble with. If they're going to fork, now would be the time to do it.
Aye, somewhat of a dark horse here. Prepping things. Showing their new TV with apps now, and their new ad platform, I think Google's in serious risk of losing their main partner, or them not being as strong a union as before. I can totally see it from Samsung's side 'well, we can use that code base and make our own version, or with GoogleTV not really hitting it's stride atm, but our platform having a good chance, and we get to keep all the revenue, then... why do we really need you to join us in this?"
All this time, you'd think it'd be Apple the main competitor to Google, now it could turn out to be Samsung.
But if he does, they can blame it on some anonymous hackers.
Which of course it must be if (insertRandomCandidateHere) wins.
It's a bit of a waste though, everyone knows they save the real hacking for the final tally counts to decide president, not this early stage. Maybe the GOP are just upset 4chan peeps are going to decide the next president and not Karl Rove?
Is more revisions to their xperia play. This should be a phone of some sort. Doesn't have to be Android (though preferred). Just a cool gaming device, with proper controls, that can also make phone calls.