I think it can store about 3K, definitely less than 4K. If not for that (obscure) limit, I would have made an edge-to-edge QR including my public key and everything.
Apart from that, I've learned that the most useful cards limit themselves to containing only solid, non-changing information. A home or office address is not to be considered unchanging, especially if you order hundreds of cards and aren't Jeff Bezos (who, I would wager, hasn't much use for business cards anyway).
Hahhhhh... sigh. Nowadays I've replaced my trusty T3's with an Android phone.
Android has GPS! Android has 3D graphics! Android has Ba-dum-Tish!...but the Palm is still the superior *PDA*, and by a wide margin at that. It seems the industry has forgotten how to make proper digital assistants, and are only able to produce popular blingware.
As microbee points out below, yes there is "Bump" and so on, but they don't pass the actual data directly; they pass the data in roundabout ways, and if you "bump" an app it really just sends the download link to the app market instead of just sending the gorram app.
Exactly. While not the type for business cards per se, I do carry calling cards. They contain only my most basic information (my name, as well as personal email address and mobile phone number), with same embedded in a QR code for easy digital capture.
I incidentally was asked to order a box of business cards, but only managed to hand out four or five of them before I changed office... and phone number... and office again... and again. But the paper stock and format is GREAT for writing down grocery lists and other such notes; my dad used punch cards for decades.
From the article: "The latest Trojan horse for Google’s Android operating system has been seen posing in Chinese third-party app stores as legitimate programs such as Wallpaper apps."
Is it just me or do these things invariably trace back to wallpaper apps? People* must be real suckers for these things. And here I am, writing *productivity* apps... *smacks forehead*
The only thing stopping them at this point is their ability to get the full staff on board for a second season, and possibly a couple decent writers to make it akin to the spirit of the original.
Are you kidding? Have you seen the DVD bonus material? These people would give Wash'es right arm for another chance to do more Firefly episodes. The writers, though, may be a bigger challenge, unless Joss takes it upon himself to dedicate a couple of weekends to the cause.
...but then, I imagine the Google apps (and quite a few others, no doubt) leak clear text data by the bucket load. Even if you do encrypt your local storage, and use a VPN, I don't think that Google Mail and Maps and MyFace and BootPrints and... will make use of it. Not to mention all the ad-enabled and profiled free apps, which are sending (anonymised, but still) usage data who-knows-where.
If you want to be paranoid about your smart phone, be smart and use a dumb phone, and a proper PDA on the side.
...can flag the commercials for me but it can't flag repetitive inanity...
My set has a knob called "Brightness", but that doesn't seem to help either. It's true what they say; television is a medium because it's rarely well done.
I would much rather be using my Appleseed account, but take a guess how many of my non-technical friends (and their friends (and their friends (...))) are even aware of there being an alternative.
Oh yeah, I eschewed Facebook for a very long time, but it became almost painfully awkward. I ended up posting a story on the subject, which after much ado can be summarised thusly.
The following is the total content of my Facebook page. I don't have a "wall", I don't upload photos, I don't play games (apart from the open-ended game of "let's see how they fucked my privacy settings this week"). It's a read-only account, so I can at least *try* to be part of the loop in this new social landscape.
Q: What? You here? I thought you hated Facebook? A: "Hate" is a strong word; let's say "dislike". Social networking, as a concept, is great. What I dislike is this implementation. So yeah, I did. I still do.
Q: Why? A: Because I've become increasingly aware of the fact that, in this day and age, not having a Facebook account is like not having a phone 20 years ago. It's perfectly possible to live like that... but you won't have a clue what's going on around you.
Q: But where's the rest of your info? A: Right where it's always been. You want to know something, you just get in touch with me.
And yet, on the Android forum that I frequent, I've had a small handful of conversations with users who want just that for their kids' phones. Yeah, I know, go figure.
As an ex-TealScript user, this is a very sorry thing to be using: it's Graffiti 1, it's not customisable in any way, it still takes up half the bloody screen, and as you say is hard to use with a sausage-sized stylus.
What did catch my eye was around 3:44 in the video -- the part where they say that you really only need the dot or central ring -- it would be very awesome indeed if this turns out to be a transparent keyboard that can be shown over the actual UI. I'm keeping an eye on this, but I don't dare hope.
As an ex-TealScript user, this is a sorry thing to be using: it's Graffiti 1, it's not customisable in any way, it still takes up half the bloody screen, and as you say is hard to use with a sausage-sized stylus.
What caught my eye was around 3:44 in the video -- the part where they say that you really only need the dot or central ring -- it would be very awesome indeed if this turns out to be a transparent keyboard that can be shown over the actual UI. I'm keeping an eye on this, but I don't dare hope.
Or a stream of Beastie Boys tourists, all chanting "Licenced to Ill". Although that's probably not a desired effect (what with that "meditation pavilion" and all), it's arguably better than willfully generating needless emergency calls.
I too am an old die-hard PalmOS user who had to deal with the untimely death of the platform, and came up with Android as "the best... at least, of what's out there these days".
First of all, I agree with all of your points; there are a ton of use cases, methods, et cetera where it boggles the mind why the Android guys didn't build on more than a decade's worth of experience, and ended up building something less efficient. It's just sad, really.
* For HappyDays, the latest versions of EboBirthday does most of it. You can make it parse the birthdays and anniversaries of your contacts and put reminders into a calendar, but you can't (yet) specify the format of the subject line of the calendar entry (I've filed a request and hope they'll get around to it eventually).
* For the HP48 emulator, try Droid48. It's a huge thing, but I can't say if it does *all* that the original does.
The other ones I don't have any good suggestions for, I'm afraid.:-( The drawing apps, in particular, are all of the kiddy paint variety; I suppose without a stylus there's not much point to strive for better.
The app I miss the most --bar none-- is TealScript: full-screen transparent handwriting recognition and user-definable strokes.
Erm... okay, although Ghandi said that "you christians are so unlike Christ" I'm still going to say "bad analogy" because I consider hackers and crackers are not merely variant of the same but very nearly *opposites* (which, mind you, is not the same thing as "opponents").
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I think it can store about 3K, definitely less than 4K.
If not for that (obscure) limit, I would have made an edge-to-edge QR including my public key and everything.
Apart from that, I've learned that the most useful cards limit themselves to containing only solid, non-changing information. A home or office address is not to be considered unchanging, especially if you order hundreds of cards and aren't Jeff Bezos (who, I would wager, hasn't much use for business cards anyway).
Hahhhhh... sigh. Nowadays I've replaced my trusty T3's with an Android phone.
Android has GPS! Android has 3D graphics! Android has Ba-dum-Tish! ...but the Palm is still the superior *PDA*, and by a wide margin at that. It seems the industry has forgotten how to make proper digital assistants, and are only able to produce popular blingware.
As microbee points out below, yes there is "Bump" and so on, but they don't pass the actual data directly; they pass the data in roundabout ways, and if you "bump" an app it really just sends the download link to the app market instead of just sending the gorram app.
Exactly.
While not the type for business cards per se, I do carry calling cards. They contain only my most basic information (my name, as well as personal email address and mobile phone number), with same embedded in a QR code for easy digital capture.
I incidentally was asked to order a box of business cards, but only managed to hand out four or five of them before I changed office ... and phone number ... and office again ... and again. But the paper stock and format is GREAT for writing down grocery lists and other such notes; my dad used punch cards for decades.
From the article:
"The latest Trojan horse for Google’s Android operating system has been seen posing in Chinese third-party app stores as legitimate programs such as Wallpaper apps."
Is it just me or do these things invariably trace back to wallpaper apps? People* must be real suckers for these things. And here I am, writing *productivity* apps ... *smacks forehead*
I just had to leave my calling card here, on account of my signature.
Bye now...
Or swing by RePet?
The only thing stopping them at this point is their ability to get the full staff on board for a second season, and possibly a couple decent writers to make it akin to the spirit of the original.
Are you kidding? Have you seen the DVD bonus material? These people would give Wash'es right arm for another chance to do more Firefly episodes. The writers, though, may be a bigger challenge, unless Joss takes it upon himself to dedicate a couple of weekends to the cause.
...but then, I imagine the Google apps (and quite a few others, no doubt) leak clear text data by the bucket load. Even if you do encrypt your local storage, and use a VPN, I don't think that Google Mail and Maps and MyFace and BootPrints and ... will make use of it. Not to mention all the ad-enabled and profiled free apps, which are sending (anonymised, but still) usage data who-knows-where.
If you want to be paranoid about your smart phone, be smart and use a dumb phone, and a proper PDA on the side.
Nonsense. Any day it will splat against the solid glass wall
I'm wondering why this hasn't happened to either of the small rovers roaming the desert. Different movie, but still...
...can flag the commercials for me but it can't flag repetitive inanity...
My set has a knob called "Brightness", but that doesn't seem to help either.
It's true what they say; television is a medium because it's rarely well done.
I wouldn't expect so ... there's prior art on that.
Oh right, and the USPTO never grants patents where prior art is clearly present...
I would much rather be using my Appleseed account, but take a guess how many of my non-technical friends (and their friends (and their friends (...))) are even aware of there being an alternative.
Oh yeah, I eschewed Facebook for a very long time, but it became almost painfully awkward. I ended up posting a story on the subject, which after much ado can be summarised thusly.
The following is the total content of my Facebook page. I don't have a "wall", I don't upload photos, I don't play games (apart from the open-ended game of "let's see how they fucked my privacy settings this week"). It's a read-only account, so I can at least *try* to be part of the loop in this new social landscape.
Q: What? You here? I thought you hated Facebook?
A: "Hate" is a strong word; let's say "dislike". Social networking, as a concept, is great. What I dislike is this implementation. So yeah, I did. I still do.
Q: Why? ... but you won't have a clue what's going on around you.
A: Because I've become increasingly aware of the fact that, in this day and age, not having a Facebook account is like not having a phone 20 years ago. It's perfectly possible to live like that
Q: But where's the rest of your info?
A: Right where it's always been. You want to know something, you just get in touch with me.
O_o Oh?
And yet, on the Android forum that I frequent, I've had a small handful of conversations with users who want just that for their kids' phones. Yeah, I know, go figure.
This is what you're talking about:
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-access_company-graffiti-jjziA.aspx
As an ex-TealScript user, this is a very sorry thing to be using: it's Graffiti 1, it's not customisable in any way, it still takes up half the bloody screen, and as you say is hard to use with a sausage-sized stylus.
What did catch my eye was around 3:44 in the video -- the part where they say that you really only need the dot or central ring -- it would be very awesome indeed if this turns out to be a transparent keyboard that can be shown over the actual UI. I'm keeping an eye on this, but I don't dare hope.
Or just give me TealScript for Android...
This is what you're talking about:
http://www.androlib.com/android.application.com-access_company-graffiti-jjziA.aspx
As an ex-TealScript user, this is a sorry thing to be using: it's Graffiti 1, it's not customisable in any way, it still takes up half the bloody screen, and as you say is hard to use with a sausage-sized stylus.
What caught my eye was around 3:44 in the video -- the part where they say that you really only need the dot or central ring -- it would be very awesome indeed if this turns out to be a transparent keyboard that can be shown over the actual UI. I'm keeping an eye on this, but I don't dare hope.
You cannot have a language that is composed of a ton of glyphs but yet also have some extremely simple, small, entry system.
Digitizer and stylus?
...Or your doing it wrong
Nevermind him ... he's underqualified.
New Math never was more brilliantly explained than by Tom Lehrer:
http://curvebank.calstatela.edu/newmath/newmath.htm
You're welcome.
Quote of the moment: ;-)
"You are wise, witty, and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of trash."
Does that mean me or you?
Or a stream of Beastie Boys tourists, all chanting "Licenced to Ill". Although that's probably not a desired effect (what with that "meditation pavilion" and all), it's arguably better than willfully generating needless emergency calls.
Sky Captain (and the World of Tomorrow)
Grant you, the real name of not a real person, but still.
I too am an old die-hard PalmOS user who had to deal with the untimely death of the platform, and came up with Android as "the best ... at least, of what's out there these days".
First of all, I agree with all of your points; there are a ton of use cases, methods, et cetera where it boggles the mind why the Android guys didn't build on more than a decade's worth of experience, and ended up building something less efficient. It's just sad, really.
* For HappyDays, the latest versions of EboBirthday does most of it. You can make it parse the birthdays and anniversaries of your contacts and put reminders into a calendar, but you can't (yet) specify the format of the subject line of the calendar entry (I've filed a request and hope they'll get around to it eventually).
* For the HP48 emulator, try Droid48. It's a huge thing, but I can't say if it does *all* that the original does.
The other ones I don't have any good suggestions for, I'm afraid. :-( The drawing apps, in particular, are all of the kiddy paint variety; I suppose without a stylus there's not much point to strive for better.
The app I miss the most --bar none-- is TealScript: full-screen transparent handwriting recognition and user-definable strokes.
Erm ... okay, although Ghandi said that "you christians are so unlike Christ" I'm still going to say "bad analogy" because I consider hackers and crackers are not merely variant of the same but very nearly *opposites* (which, mind you, is not the same thing as "opponents").