"On a similar front, as a mostly happy Android user, I must admit envy for the jillions of accessories marketed for the iPhone, especially ones that take advantage of that Apple-only accessory port; maybe the Android Open Accessory project will help."
And 70% of iPhone users would replace your "mostly" with "very", whereas only 50% of Android users would. But it seems you're not even in that group so why not get something more likely to keep you very happy?
Get two line lasers. Modulate the beams at 20kHz for the start beam and 22kHz for the finish line beam. Direct the beams from overhead down to the start/finish lines. Design a timer/detector (I'll volunteer whenever I have time!) whose receptor is at least 1 inch in length and mount that to the top of each car. Each detector also has a small radio transmitter and a unique ID code.
When the car passes under the start beam the timer is started and is stopped when under the stop beam. At the stop beam the transmitter sends the ID and the E.T. (staggered so no 2 cars would omit at the same time).
Now, this isn't one of those races where the cars are covered in mud at the finish line, is it?
It very well could be the best antenna. What other cell phone can switch to a 2nd antenna when your hand is covering one of them? (Oh, I get it. Just because it CAN must mean one or both antennas are deficient in some way. Right?)
First of all, you really do need to read beyond the title of some of these patents in question. When you see "Animated graphical user interface for a display screen or portion thereof" as a patent title, some people go "OMG, Apple is trying to patent the GUI for a phone!" And while some aspects of such a patent make you think that it is so obvious that it is totally unpatentable, well, the courts will decide that if, repeat if, they are presented with prior art. And so far, those patents haven't been thrown out. So until then, all Apple-haters can do is bitch & moan about the patent system or the court system. No, it ain't perfect but it's all we got and everyone is playing by the same rules.
Anyway, put yourself in the position of having come up with some clever way of making a part of your newly designed phone stand out from the rest. It may even have some basic component of prior art but the way you've done it is different enough to be noticeable. And people notice it and like it, and your phone starts selling like hot cakes. Are you saying that you should be forced to give that away for nothing?
Trying to prevent someone from using what you've done isn't stifling innovation, it's encouraging it. It's an incentive to come up with something better. Take a look at Samsung's "Before iPhone/iPad" and "After iPhone/iPad" products here. Where's the innovation? http://maypalo.com/2011/08/22/samsung-before-after-iphone-ipad-picture/
"But more importantly, they can afford to take a lower margin on the iPad sales because all those iPad's out there will generate revenue through iTunes and the app store."
Maybe they can afford to, but they don't. Their profits on iPads dwarf the profits on other tablets.
I re-read the article. 1 gm of thorium has the energy of 7,500 gallons of gasoline, so my topic should read something like "How about 150,000 miles per gram".
"If you want an Android phone, you have tons of choice. Most of them will run the same software, and so you just choose your price range or whatever."
It's the whatever that non-geeks (and many geeks) don't care for, and they have no clue what whatever is anyway. Probably the reason why customer satisfaction is off the charts for iPhones, and not so stellar for Android. When you buy an Android phone you may get x, y or z (yes, they're all Android, but futzed with in different ways by different carriers). When you buy an iPhone you always get an iPhone. Most people like that.
An article about a supercomputer and it's performance, and only 1 or 2 comments that are not snarky or bitchin about something. Just go back and read them. Total waste of a person's time, like most comments in most articles. I'm turning in my Karma and password. See ya.
"...brain areas that have evolved to process religion."
Oh Puulleeezzee. It's religion that has evolved to process brain areas. If anything, religion would be a negative factor in evolution anyway, considering all the humans who have been exterminated in its name.
I couldn't care less if Apple, a private investigator, or the US government knew my precise location 24/7. I'm not cheating on my wife, I'm not wanted by the FBI, and I'm not hiding from the IRS. So why would I give a shit?
I suspect that the location gathering they're doing will in some way enhance my portable experience. Like, if I *have* to see an ad for used cars, that I see one for areas I frequent rather than for some lot on the other side of the country. And when Apple releases Find My Friends, that it too will be more appropriate for my roaming areas. So relax and enjoy it... unless of course your wife is on to you.
Why do we need a super heavy-lift vehicle to get there? Can't we put the pieces one-by-one into low earth orbit, then bolt em together and head off to Mars?
And why are they thinking about landing a heavy ascent vehicle on the surface, all loaded with fuel? (80% of the ascent vehicle will need to be fuel) Why not land a few cans of gas on Mars so the astronauts can fuel up the ascent vehicle prior to liftoff? Would drastically cut the weight of the descent vehicle.
And since I'm designing this Mars mission, I've got a solution to the long duration weightless problem. The transport vehicle is designed to come apart in the middle. After the main engine burn to get em on their way, they snap it apart, and tie a rope around the 2 pieces. Then start them orbiting each other. Presto, there's your gravity. Maintaining antenna alignment back to earth would be a bitch, so they have another small spacecraft with the radio dish that flies along nearby that's used as a repeater.
I still have/. on my RSS feeds because sometimes they link to some interesting scientific & engineering subjects. Once in a while, like today, I dive into the comments just to see how things are coming along (when extremely bored I've even left a comment). But it's still the same. Utterly childish, like 4th grade boys on the playground duking it out over who has the loudest mouth. Step back and look it over. See yourself?
"So here's to hoping that Honeycomb's functionality make up for the lost ground."
Not sure why you'd want to wait around and hope Honeycomb will get you there one day when you could just cut to the chase and get an iPad today (or next month if you want the next gen).
I keep telling these SETI people that they're using the wrong media but they never listen. Communicating by radio is similar to cave drawings by my Neanderthal granpa. E.T. has long ago moved on to gravity wave communications, which are interference free, pass through anything, and with unlimited range. But since we have yet to build a receiver I guess EM is the only game in town.
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Talk about guessing what's being advertised, remember those BASF ads? I never knew what it was I was supposed to buy.
Yeah, I can back it up. I read it on the internet.
http://www.splatf.com/2011/07/mobile-satisfaction/
"On a similar front, as a mostly happy Android user, I must admit envy for the jillions of accessories marketed for the iPhone, especially ones that take advantage of that Apple-only accessory port; maybe the Android Open Accessory project will help."
And 70% of iPhone users would replace your "mostly" with "very", whereas only 50% of Android users would. But it seems you're not even in that group so why not get something more likely to keep you very happy?
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mmmmm.... "omit" = "transmit"
Get two line lasers. Modulate the beams at 20kHz for the start beam and 22kHz for the finish line beam. Direct the beams from overhead down to the start/finish lines. Design a timer/detector (I'll volunteer whenever I have time!) whose receptor is at least 1 inch in length and mount that to the top of each car. Each detector also has a small radio transmitter and a unique ID code.
When the car passes under the start beam the timer is started and is stopped when under the stop beam. At the stop beam the transmitter sends the ID and the E.T. (staggered so no 2 cars would omit at the same time).
Now, this isn't one of those races where the cars are covered in mud at the finish line, is it?
It very well could be the best antenna. What other cell phone can switch to a 2nd antenna when your hand is covering one of them? (Oh, I get it. Just because it CAN must mean one or both antennas are deficient in some way. Right?)
First of all, you really do need to read beyond the title of some of these patents in question. When you see "Animated graphical user interface for a display screen or portion thereof" as a patent title, some people go "OMG, Apple is trying to patent the GUI for a phone!" And while some aspects of such a patent make you think that it is so obvious that it is totally unpatentable, well, the courts will decide that if, repeat if, they are presented with prior art. And so far, those patents haven't been thrown out. So until then, all Apple-haters can do is bitch & moan about the patent system or the court system. No, it ain't perfect but it's all we got and everyone is playing by the same rules.
Anyway, put yourself in the position of having come up with some clever way of making a part of your newly designed phone stand out from the rest. It may even have some basic component of prior art but the way you've done it is different enough to be noticeable. And people notice it and like it, and your phone starts selling like hot cakes. Are you saying that you should be forced to give that away for nothing?
Trying to prevent someone from using what you've done isn't stifling innovation, it's encouraging it. It's an incentive to come up with something better. Take a look at Samsung's "Before iPhone/iPad" and "After iPhone/iPad" products here. Where's the innovation?
http://maypalo.com/2011/08/22/samsung-before-after-iphone-ipad-picture/
"But more importantly, they can afford to take a lower margin on the iPad sales because all those iPad's out there will generate revenue through iTunes and the app store."
Maybe they can afford to, but they don't. Their profits on iPads dwarf the profits on other tablets.
I don't want to hear that! :)
Dunno where you got that from, but the US alone has 440,000 TONS of the stuff. That's 4x10^11 grams.
So who is this retard you're referring to? Some AC who posts insults here?
I re-read the article. 1 gm of thorium has the energy of 7,500 gallons of gasoline, so my topic should read something like "How about 150,000 miles per gram".
No, not a joke.
http://wardsauto.com/ar/thorium_power_car_110811/
That would be thorium. 1 gram would cost you under 10 bucks.
"If you want an Android phone, you have tons of choice. Most of them will run the same software, and so you just choose your price range or whatever."
It's the whatever that non-geeks (and many geeks) don't care for, and they have no clue what whatever is anyway. Probably the reason why customer satisfaction is off the charts for iPhones, and not so stellar for Android. When you buy an Android phone you may get x, y or z (yes, they're all Android, but futzed with in different ways by different carriers). When you buy an iPhone you always get an iPhone. Most people like that.
An article about a supercomputer and it's performance, and only 1 or 2 comments that are not snarky or bitchin about something. Just go back and read them. Total waste of a person's time, like most comments in most articles. I'm turning in my Karma and password. See ya.
"...brain areas that have evolved to process religion."
Oh Puulleeezzee. It's religion that has evolved to process brain areas. If anything, religion would be a negative factor in evolution anyway, considering all the humans who have been exterminated in its name.
I have a better idea.
Did you make less than $24,000? If yes then you owe no tax. Otherwise,
Pay to the IRS 10% of the amount you made over $24,000.
I couldn't care less if Apple, a private investigator, or the US government knew my precise location 24/7. I'm not cheating on my wife, I'm not wanted by the FBI, and I'm not hiding from the IRS. So why would I give a shit?
I suspect that the location gathering they're doing will in some way enhance my portable experience. Like, if I *have* to see an ad for used cars, that I see one for areas I frequent rather than for some lot on the other side of the country. And when Apple releases Find My Friends, that it too will be more appropriate for my roaming areas. So relax and enjoy it... unless of course your wife is on to you.
I dunno about that. Does "loaded" equate to "infected"?
Hey, the headline forgot to include, "Mac Users Unaffected" :)
Why do we need a super heavy-lift vehicle to get there? Can't we put the pieces one-by-one into low earth orbit, then bolt em together and head off to Mars? And why are they thinking about landing a heavy ascent vehicle on the surface, all loaded with fuel? (80% of the ascent vehicle will need to be fuel) Why not land a few cans of gas on Mars so the astronauts can fuel up the ascent vehicle prior to liftoff? Would drastically cut the weight of the descent vehicle. And since I'm designing this Mars mission, I've got a solution to the long duration weightless problem. The transport vehicle is designed to come apart in the middle. After the main engine burn to get em on their way, they snap it apart, and tie a rope around the 2 pieces. Then start them orbiting each other. Presto, there's your gravity. Maintaining antenna alignment back to earth would be a bitch, so they have another small spacecraft with the radio dish that flies along nearby that's used as a repeater.
I still have /. on my RSS feeds because sometimes they link to some interesting scientific & engineering subjects. Once in a while, like today, I dive into the comments just to see how things are coming along (when extremely bored I've even left a comment). But it's still the same. Utterly childish, like 4th grade boys on the playground duking it out over who has the loudest mouth. Step back and look it over. See yourself?
"So here's to hoping that Honeycomb's functionality make up for the lost ground."
Not sure why you'd want to wait around and hope Honeycomb will get you there one day when you could just cut to the chase and get an iPad today (or next month if you want the next gen).
I keep telling these SETI people that they're using the wrong media but they never listen. Communicating by radio is similar to cave drawings by my Neanderthal granpa. E.T. has long ago moved on to gravity wave communications, which are interference free, pass through anything, and with unlimited range. But since we have yet to build a receiver I guess EM is the only game in town.
Not often, but sometimes the humor here on /. makes me smile. This one made me bust out laughing. thx